City urges residents to join hands in keeping our beaches clean

16 September 2024

As part of the #SpringCleanCT campaign, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Waste Management, Alderman Grant Twigg, today, 16 September, hosted a beach clean-up at the Lagoon Beach in Milnerton ahead of International Coastal Clean-up Day, which will be celebrated on Saturday 21 September 2024. This is on the sideline of the International Solid Waste Association World Congress 2024 held in CTICC over the coming days.

The Lagoon Beach clean-up runs in conjunction with the start of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) 2024 Conference in Cape Town from 15 to 18 September. The ISWA World Congress is the foremost event in the field of solid waste management and serves as a global assembly, featuring elevated plenary sessions, technical site visits, and a rich cultural and social itinerary.

The clean-up was joined by a number of volunteers, including Save A Fishie, The Litter Boom Project, and Cape Town Tourism. The idea behind this event is to go to a local beach with a garbage bag and start picking up waste to reduce the amount that would be swept into the ocean by water or wind.

‘With this beach clean-up, we want to strive to raise awareness of the increasing pollution on beaches around the world and restore purity and cleanliness to the environment in which we live. This clean-up is even more important after the recent storms experienced in Cape Town as anything that is placed in the ocean and other water bodies will find its way back. This is an opportune time for the clean-up of this beach.

‘In addition to helping the environment, I want to motivate other communities to organise similar clean-ups and make beach cleaning days enjoyable events that will inspire people to take action to maintain a clean, safe, and healthy environment for aquatic fauna and flora and marine species,’ said Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Waste Management, Alderman Grant Twigg.

Get involved by organising or joining a clean-up

Tag your clean-up with #SpringCleanCT to show your pride in our beautiful mother city!

Twitter: @CityofCT, @Geordinhl, and @GrantTwigg

Facebook: City of Cape Town, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, and Alderman Grant Twigg

24-Hour toll-free Illegal Dumping Tip-off line: 0800 110077

Email: solidwaste.bylaw@capetown.gov.za

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To notify the City about dumping that needs to be cleared, please call 0860 103 089.

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City of Cape Town, Media Office