En NEWS V ol. 02/2004 Utilitas Building, 1 Dorp Street Private Bag X9086, Cape Town, 8000 Tel No.: 021-483 2990 Fax No.: 021-483 3211 Environmental and Development Planning News WISE WASTE 2 2 Notice ! Please note that the correct acronym for the Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning is: D:EA&DP and n ot DEADP . ! Owing to limited space in this edition of EnD NEWS, translated articles in your preferred language, where indicated, are available on the Portal. Editor. Minister T asneem Essop talking to members of the community during her visit to the Overstrand Municipality . This clean-up o peration was part of the Western Cape Government's 100-day deliverab les. continued on page 5... Cape T own was then enlisted to open up the meters in our basement and sure as can be, the numbers downstairs didn't correspond to the R80 The Departmental waste minimization project now 000 account. We then found another account for has a name, 2wise2waste, courtesy of Rowan our bu il din g fr om Pub li c W or ks an d th is tu rn ed ou t Ba rk er. This project is real ly only st ar ti ng now , to matc h the meter do wn stairs. This amounts to what has happened so far? R11 000 for a month! Much better , but still a lot of money. As most of you are aware, a survey went around by email asking various questions about water , waste, We realised that the provincial government (Public electr ici ty and other rel ated issues. Included in the Works) is not only doing nothing to minimize its survey were a few fun quiz questions with prizes attached. The winners of these were Peter Visser - for guessing how much waste leaves the building daily , Nicole Petersen and Rowan Barker for good name suggestions (in the end we used Rowan's great suggestion) and Gerhard Gerber for his overall excellent eff ort. Lerato Moja g uessed the huge electricity bill, which at the time we were confused about. We now know the truth and it tells us much. The truth about our electricity bill is that it is not the horrific R80 000 or so per month. Public W orks were giving us bills for “Utilitas Building, 1 Dorp Street” so we all thought these must be the bills. After making a few `back -of-the-envelope' calculations on how much power we should be using, we realised that it cannot possibly be our office buildi ng. An electricity inspector from the City of 1