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people of Waterfall City for collecting all these items, from Waterfall also hosted two book fairs at Polofields Crossing
clothes to shoes. We are so grateful; you have no idea!” this year to raise funds for HospiceWits. For both events, a
Mosa Lehana, Botshabelo Fundraising Administrator. tent was erected in the parking lot and filled with hundreds
of preowned books, going for bargain prices. The Waterfall
During the Clean up campaign, the community was community was also encouraged to donate any unwanted
given the opportunity to get rid of all their unwanted books at the tent. During the March event, over 2 000 books
electronics like laptops, phones, chargers and even small were sold and R35 000 raised for HospiceWits. Mark Pilgrim and
kitchen appliances. Waterfall teamed up with RecycleX, Hot91.9FM (a community radio station based in Northriding)
whose main aim is to eliminate e‐waste responsibly broadcast live from the book fair to promote the initiative.
and improve the carbon footprint of companies and
communities. RecycleX set up their recycle trailer at September’s Book Fair drew on the success of the earlier
Polofields Crossing and offered a data erasure guarantee event and raised more than R45 000 for HospiceWits. The
for items like desktop computers, laptops and mobile Spring Book Fair saw the addition of numerous tenant offers,
phones before destroying them and recycling the parts. book signings and book talks held at The Codfather and The
Donated computers that were still in working order Potato Shed. The book talks were hosted in collaboration
were data scrubbed and fixed up for use in RecycleX’s with NB Publishers. veteran journalist Janine Lazarus
container project in Bongimfundo, kwaZulu Natal. This spoke about her book Bait, while author Luthando Dyasop
container has been transformed into a digital classroom discussed his memoir Out Of Quatro. The book talks were
and provides a safe space where children and adults hosted by radio personality and journalist Aki Anastasiou.
from the surrounding communities can use repurposed
computers. A total of 741kg of e-waste was collected and SuperSpar Polofields showed their support by running
recycled during Waterfall’s two-day Green up campaign. their own book collection campaign. In the month leading
This included microwaves, printers, DvD players, decoders, up to the fair, SuperSpar called for donations from their
routers, no less than nine laptops and 12 mobile phones! generous shoppers and were able to fill over 20 trolleys with
donated books which they handed over to HospiceWits.
“It was a pleasure working with the Waterfall team in
making the e-waste drive such a success, and we hope As part of this event, Waterfall teamed up with SA
we played our part in helping to educate the public Writers College to host a writing competition. Six items
more on responsible, compliant e-waste recycling,” says from the HospiceWits charity shop were selected,
Chris Fox, RecycleX Compliance Solutions Provider. and aspiring writers were asked to use one of these

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