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EZULWINI – MTN has taken the lead in launching a recycling campaign that intends to save the country and boost the economy.
MTN CEO Wandile Mtshali launched the campaign at MTN headquarters yesterday morning, also announcing a partnership with the Eswatini Environment Authority (EEA) and Eswatini’s leading recycler, Eric Slabbert Agency.
Mtshali explained that MTN has an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) strategy with three pillars, one of which is recycling and waste management.
He said the waste management initiative was aimed at creating a culture of recycling within the organisation, not only to save the planet but also to save on waste disposal costs.
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“We are taking the lead to inspire staff to recycle waste and to further educate about water recycling. As you may know, recycling is beneficial in many aspects. It reduces waste sent to landfills and incinerators, prevents pollution, conserves natural resources and energy. It also has economic benefits and creates jobs,” he said.
Mtshali said this would be demonstrated in all their shops across the country, with the guidance of their partners, the EEA and Eric Slabbert Agency.
Some of the activities that MTN committed to under this campaign include going paperless by limiting or eliminating the need to print and reducing the use of plastic bags in their shops.
Mtshali introduced several competitions that will run internally for now, where staff members will compete in their various departments and be awarded prizes for complying with the recycling rules.
“We want to instil the culture of separating recyclable waste like paper and cardboard instead of throwing it in with all the other garbage,” he said.
The CEO highlighted that the advantages of doing so were that recyclables were no longer filling up in garbage bags, lowering the frequency of trips to the dump and that the sorted recyclable waste could now be collected by recycling waste hauliers and taken to recycling facilities.
MTN Corporate Services Manintruders arrived to break in.
However, he said looking at the level of damage that was done to the doors, it was clear that they had spent a lot of time breaking in and wondered how they were able to do it without security guards around the area hearing anything .
Furthermore, he said damaging the doors would have caused noise to scare away the criminals. “It is likely the that the main road was used to get away,
MTN CEO Wandile Mtshali making his remarks. ager Thandiwe Mashinini said the in-house competitions were also aimed at unearthing environmentalists within the company.
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EEA CEO Gcina Dladla commended MTN for this initiative, which he described as key in the climate change battle.
He said when countries committed to a global circular economy, they did so with full knowledge that great corporates like MTN would take the lead.
“We all take comfort when we see these corporates taking the lead,” he said.
Dlamini said it was disturbing that the economy was still linked to manufacturing to dispose of, yet the current climatic situation calls for manufacturing to remanufacture.
He gave the example that globally, there are billions of gadgets like cellphones that had gone obsolete, but were still kept in some drawers just because people were so connected to them.
“Another reason could be that proper ways of disposing of those gadgets are not known to those people,” he said. since there is a river on the other side of the building through which they entered,” he added.
Some of the people who work around the block were surprised that despite breaking into some of the offices, nothing was stolen except in the tattoo shop.
The Deputy Police Information and Communications Officer Inspector Nosipho Mnguni confirmed the incident. She said the police were investigating the matter.