From Cans to Fruit Trees
Last updated: 19 June 2008
Powys County Council has signed up to a scheme which promises to grow a fruit tree in Malawi for every tonne of aluminium drinks cans recycled in the county. Heather Bull
from the Waste Management team at Powys County Council told us more:
"The initiative is run by not for profit organisation Alupro in partnership with British charity Ripple Africa and Powys has signed-up to be involved until March 2009.
It means Powys residents could help provide hundreds of new fruit trees for the Southern African community. About half the new trees - producing guava and paw paw fruits - will be grown from seed in 75 existing nurseries.
The remainder will be high-value grafted fruit trees, which will be produced in new greenhouses at the charity's base on Lake Malawi before being sold to individuals and small community businesses.
Recycling aluminium is 20 times more efficient than making it from the raw material, bauxite, so getting the recycling habit saves massive amounts of energy, and will now also help reach the charity's target of growing 85,000 trees in rural Malawi.
We are delighted to be supporting this initiative. As well as helping a worthy cause, we hope it will help encourage more people to recycle their aluminium drinks cans and reduce the amount sent to landfill."
Article by Heather Bull
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