The NKRA is grateful for the support provided in the 4th Street park by our park sponsors RUSSELL FISHER PROPERTIES and VISION TACTICAL SECURITY and the KILLARNEY MALL, and for the street cleaning services provided by RCS SECURITY SERVICES.
GREEN PROJECTS
HELP KEEP KILLARNEY GREEN – JOIN OUR RECYCLING PROJECT
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Recycling is a simple, cheap and easy way for ordinary people to make a valuable and meaningful contribution toward saving the environment. It also removes valuable rubbish from our wheelie-bins, which makes it less lucrative for vagrants to empty our rubbish out onto the street every week, thereby causing us a huge mess and a headache.
PikiTup’s landfills are almost at capacity, so we really need to recycle everything we can. Our “official” recycling project by PikiTup is still struggling, and so many of us continue to rely on the “trolley people” to perform this necessary service. These people do a valuable job, most of them are helpful and friendly, and they don’t ask for payment or handouts. We can all make a significant contribution to our city and to the environment simply by assisting our local “trolley people” to take our recyclable materials to the recyclers, and all this requires from us is to separate the cardboard, plastic and metal in our weekly garbage, and put it out on Tuesday mornings in a separate bag or container so that the recyclers don’t have to rummage through our garbage to find it.
We urge you all to participate in some form of recycling, as our municipal dumps are almost full, and when they have to transport our garbage to the new dump in Springs it will cost us twice as much.
We have started a new community-based Killarney-Riviera Recycling Project, together with an organisation called ARO Recycling, who work with the reclaimers (trolley-people) to improve recycling. For buildings interested in joining the pilot project, ARO will provide bins and bags to make separating and collecting recyclables simple and effective. For more information, please visit https://www.africanreclaimers.org.
A successful project will not only make recycling safer and more dignified for the reclaimers themselves, but will make our streets and pavements cleaner, and will reduce the amount of waste going into the Johannesburg landfills – which are rapidly filling up.
In the meanwhile, you can register your building as an interested party, using the Google Form at K-R Recycling Pilot Project
You can also follow the activities of the Killarney-Riviera Recycling Project on their WhatsApp group, at https://chat.whatsapp.com/L1IlY4t9C837nVxp5oD8QW
The Community Garden
This project grows food in the 4th Street Park, which is freely available to be picked by visitors. The Community Garden volunteers are expanding the veggie-beds in the park. An irrigation system has been installed, which was paid for out of donations from the community. They are also establishing a “seed library” at the Killarney Public Library, where new gardeners can obtain veggie-seeds for free. The Community Garden project always needs volunteers, to help with weeding, planting, watering etc. Please contact them at: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Cjh3eJl57pv1XcoQ7OEBj9