Scout Groups across the country are joining the global UN Plastic Tide Turner’s Challenge (PTTC) in partnership with World Scouting.  Earlier in the year National Rover Advisory Council Chairperson Katleho Mokoena facilitated a Plastic Pollution Sensitization training with local leaders and Scouts to enable them to return to their communities, educate their Scouts and peers, and implement PTTC projects.

1st LK Ntlabathi Scouter Sizwe Nhlapo took to the streets with 10 Scouts to clean up plastic and educate community members on how it hurts our planet. “They cleaned up around the school and showed their peers and teachers what can be achieved from picking up plastic”, explains Katleho. “It was great to see how they collected plastic bottles and bottle tops in the community and transformed and upcycled them into useful things at home like candles holders to use during load shedding when there is no electricity, hanging herb gardens when there is not enough space for a garden, brooms, and toy cars so children can play”, he concludes

Learning why it is important not to litter, how plastic is destroying our environment, and how to recycle the plastic we use into useful items for around the house forms part of the global Plastic Tide Turners Challenge and Scouts for SDGs initiative.