The Overberg is not a rubbish dump

This is the good NEWS - Ed

Amidst all the hard work that is being done by various individuals and organisations to help conserve our fauna and flora, news of the proposed storage facility (read dump) for used tyres in Tesselaarsdal is simply shocking.

Apart from the numerous ecological hazards that go along with such a facility, the mere presence of a dump site for black rubber waste will devastate the scenery of one of our last true villages. Imagine the scenes flashing on millions of television screens all over the world should the ABSA Cape Epic again make its way along this route in the Overberg. The ‘storage facility’ will be in direct line of sight of riders, spectators and television crews. An epic mistake, if ever there was one.

Should a repeat of the fires of earlier this year happen, the consequences will be felt throughout the region.

It is shameful for a government agency to award a contract to a company when both clearly have no comprehension of our region’s shared conservation ethos.

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