Cape Town says every bottle and plastic recycled is waste redirected from polluting rivers [SOUND]

# The City of Cape Town says that while the metro budgets for major bi-annual river clean-ups as part of ongoing maintenance, lasting impact can only be sustained by the involvement of the broader society. Recently, hundreds of volunteers joined the Soet River Catchment Management Forum to clean a large section of the chronically polluted Soet River in Strand. Mayoral committee member for Water and Sanitation, Zahid Badroodien, says approximately four-thousand bags of waste were collected during the half-day clean-up operation: