About Press Conference Launch: Campaign to ban e-waste from WA landfills
Last week we held our first ever Press Conference to officially launch our campaign to ban e-waste to Western Australian landfill.
Our directors James and Michael addressed the crowd consisting of WA councils, waste industry partners and media with a short yet sharp speech explaining why it’s important to ban e-waste from going into landfills.
Some of the top points founders of TGR made to ban e-waste included points such as:
- E-waste does not belong in landfills – it can leach harmful chemicals and contaminate our soils for generations to come.
- Millions of dollars’ worth of precious and base metals are being discarded and left in landfills.
- Every 10,000 T of e-waste recycled locally, creates 50 or more full-time equivalent jobs.
“We believe we live on a finite planet and having both recently become fathers we’d like to see our children growing up in the same environment so they can enjoy what we enjoy. And banning e-waste is one of those steps that are required to achieve that.” stressed director James Coghill.
If you didn’t get the chance to come down, you can watch the speech and Q&A session on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/Jccb0j1yJR4
We finished our Press Conference with a tour of our recycling facility with an enthralling yet fairly noisy demonstration of our recycling plant in action.
VERY EXCITING!
We have reached a thousand signatures this week. BIG THANK YOU to every single one of you who signed our petition and helped us spread the message.
We are now taking further steps to develop our campaign and ensure your voices are heard.~ Stay tuned!
THANK YOU,
Team Total Green