{"id":79,"date":"2011-06-26T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:08:27","slug":"flat-residents-show-waste-the-red-card","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/projects\/flat-residents-show-waste-the-red-card","title":{"rendered":"Flat residents show waste the red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KveColinRegManA@Jo@WalsteadHIres.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-83\" title=\"Kve Colin Reg Man &amp; A Jo Walstead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KveColinRegManA@Jo@WalsteadHIres-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KveColinRegManA@Jo@WalsteadHIres-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KveColinRegManA@Jo@WalsteadHIres.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Community and social development practitioner of ARA, \u00a0Anthea Rossouw, has pioneered an initiative to reduce waste significantly at a Housing 21 Extra Care Court. Anthea spent 20 months to pioneer and implement a new way of handling waste at Walstead Court, reducing waste to landfill significantly. The model is based on involving the residents and staff to work together as a team to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Anthea noticed that most of the waste was going to landfill each week. Anthea discussed the issue with the Court Manager, who \u00a0gave her permission to explore the possibility of reducing the waste. \u00a0Anthea believes that to reduce waste effectively, meant that \u00a0the people who live at the scheme, should take ownership of the project.\u00a0The approach Anthea had in mind meant residents would recycle more effectively, and put food waste into a composter called \u00a0The Green Johanna: a unique design, easy to install and safely handles food and garden waste, rendering quality compost. No \u00a0more smelly black bags in the rubbish room at the Court! \u00a0Educational workshops with the residents and some staff members \u00a0followed to elicit support and involvement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC032851.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-86\" title=\"DSC03285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC032851-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC032851-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anthearossouw.com\/ara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC032851.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Implementation has reduced the waste to landfill at Walstead Court by over 55%, the black bags from 3 to 1 per flat per week on \u00a0average. Food weighed daily, over a 6\u2010month period alone, showed that 280 kg of food waste was diverted from landfill. Residual \u00a0waste has dropped significantly and recycling has quadrupled. The tonnage diverted from landfill continues to grow! \u00a0Developing \u00a0the model and trailing it, took over 500 hours of her time volunteering to develop a new way for flats to take ownership of -and manage the waste where they live more effectively. Anthea adn ARA has pioneered the way for others to follow!<br \/>\n(Extracts from Crawley News \u00a0and The Guardian UK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community and social development practitioner of ARA, \u00a0Anthea Rossouw, has pioneered an initiative to reduce waste significantly at a Housing 21 Extra Care Court. Anthea spent 20 months to pioneer and implement a new way of handling waste at Walstead Court, reducing waste to landfill significantly. 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