Recycling guide

Recycling and composting are two of the best ways to reduce the amount of waste that is sent to landfills. These methods also reduce your carbon footprint and improve the environmental performance for businesses.

What to recycle

How to Be a Good Neighbour

Being on bad terms with your neighbour can make your life frustrating, day after day. But taking the time to establish good terms with your neighbours has numerous benefits. The community will be friendlier, the neighbourhood safer, and the area a nicer and more comfortable place to live.

Tips

1. Send them a bouquet of flowers, invite them over for dinner, offer to babysit or petsit, something like that. They will be very happy.
2. Really good neighbours watch out for each other. They ask each other for advice, and offer to help, especially on matters that impact the larger neighbourhood. They respect each others' boundaries but are quick to assist in a crisis. They look for opportunities to collaborate and to socialize. - Great neighbours make for great neighbourhoods, and it is well worth the effort.
3. Check local regulations regarding fires in your backyard and noise levels. There are laws in most jurisdictions regulating such things.
4. If you are experiencing problems with an anti-social neighbour and you are unable to resolve them yourself, then see if your local government has website information on dispute resolution. For example, look for a website with information on how to tackle anti-social behaviour in your community. Law Enforcement 021 554 8005.

Introduce yourself. Whether you're new in the neighborhood or new residents have just moved in on your block, introduce yourself. Say hello, offer a welcoming gift (the classic homemade pie never fails) and share or ask about the local area: "Where's the nearest pizzeria?" or "The garbage truck comes by on Mondays, usually around 10 in the morning, but sometimes he sneaks in at 8."

How to discard of your eWaste - old electronic equipment etc?

Sunset Beach Home Owners Association would like to recommend Cape eWaste as your go-to for discarding all your electronic waste.  We will also be collaborating with Cape eWaste to do collection drives in Sunset Beach once every 3 months.  They will be here on a Saturday morning between 09h00 and 12h00, to take any unwanted electronic equipment as mentioned below.  Please do keep your eyes on our Sunset Beach Calendar at the bottom of this page for the next eWaste Collection date.

Electronic waste, or E-Waste, is the fastest growing waste stream in South Africa. 

Every year, you the consumer and businesses discard of millions of

• televisions, 
• computers, 
• cell phones, and 
• other electronic products.

The challenge is to find economical ways to recycle and reuse these products.

We at Cape e-Waste Recyclers provide a free service to the day to day consumer as well as our bigger corporates, retailers, education facilities, medical institutes and our local & national government.

Free Recycling for Sunset Beach Residents

We announce with great pleasure that the new SBHOA Committee have successfully arranged for free collection of recyclable materials in Sunset Beach. The City of Cape Town will be collecting recyclable material from Sunset Beach residents once a week from 1 December 2016.

Please remember to place your paper, cans, bottles and plastic in bags, outside your gate ON A TUESDAY. It is helpful to the recycling process to give these items a quick rinse prior to discarding them.

New users can place their recycling out in normal plastic bags or boxes and they will find a plastic bag replaced into their post box once collected.

eWaste must not be going into this recycling, but rather be dropped off at the Recycling Collection bin at Makro in Milnerton.  Just ask the security or any Makro employee if you cant locate the bin.  Thank you.