Sasol Limited Sustainability Report 2021 - Book - Page 29
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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS: GROWING SHARED VALUE – SASOL IN SOCIETY (CONTINUED)
Community environmental programmes
Our community environmental programme
is aimed at improving the quality of life,
facilitating better access to community
services as well as improvement of health
outcomes linked to environmental risks.
Globally, we reached communities,
schools, households and small
and micro business through our
environmental education and
awareness programmes. This has
also created over 200 jobs and
sustained others.
Our approach
Our programmes assist learners, educators
and the community at large to understand the
connection between environment and economic
opportunities and our dependencies on the
environment. The programmes cover waste
management, water conservation, air quality,
biodiversity, and sustainable food systems.
Theme
Environment
and biodiversity
Purpose
Progress
To create community awareness
in the impact of human
activities on the environment
through education programmes.
Implementation of waste
management programmes in
our fenceline communities and
supporting our shared value
management programmes.
Sasol's various waste
management projects such as
Envirowaste and Packa-Ching
are gaining momentum and
our fenceline communities
are reaping the rewards
of participating in these
projects.
Community projects related to water, implemented over five years
In Secunda, we continued to support the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality by investing
approximately R180 million in water and sanitation infrastructure projects in recent years.
• We completed two sewer pump-stations in Kinross and handed these and three pump
stations over to local government.
• We are committed to replacing a 1,8km, 250mm diameter rising main pipe which
has collapsed. We will replace it with a 350mm diameter PVC pipe.
In Sasolburg, we continued to support the Metsimaholo Local Municipality through
the following projects:
• Installation of water-saving devices and monitoring systems in schools.
• Contracting plumbers and water warriors to carry out basic leak repairs at over 28 schools
and 10 000 homes in Zamdela.
Our Mining operations implemented the following projects in 2021:
• Upgraded the Greylingstad sewer and wastewater treatment works.
Environmental awareness in South Africa
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Environmental awareness. A domestic waste
management initiative was initiated in Sasolburg. As part
of the initiative 150 skips were deployed across the
communities of Amelia, Iraq and Harry Gwala.
42 chaperones were recruited to manage these skips.
4 000 learners were reached in seven schools through
our awareness programme in Sasolburg schools.
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Over 4 000 households in Sasolburg were reached on
education and awareness.
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Envirowaste project in Secunda. The Sasol Enviro-waste
is an integrated programme that covers various elements
of waste management, these include street cleanup,
collections and recycling. The environmental awareness
and education drive is continuing in eMbalenhle, this
campaign is aimed at getting community involvement in
finding solutions and to take full responsibility of their
own environment; 130 jobs and other opportunities were
created, 1 036 learners were educated, and five non-profit
organisations (NPO)s were trained.
• Built a water pipeline from eMbalenhle to Charl Cilliers to provide the Charl Cilliers
community with better access to water.
• Rehabilitated bridges in Polar Township near Ogies in Mpumalanga.
Sasol Envirowaste programme gives eMbhalenhle new lease on life
The Sasol Envirowaste programme is an environmental awareness initiative designed and
implemented by the local community in eMbalenhle, a township in the Govan Mbeki Local
Municipality, Mpumalanga.
For many years, the township grappled with illegal dumping. The Envirowaste programme
has sought to create awareness among residents of this issue and to enact interventions
to address this problem.
Since its inception three years ago, the programme has employed over 50 waste
ambassadors and 26 waste collectors from the community. It has further removed more
than 100 illegal dumping sites. In addition, approximately 152 000 households have received
education and support to help make them more environmentally aware.
Two local environmental management service providers have been appointed to assist
in managing the programme. The South Africa Healthcare Foundation is responsible for
programme design, implementation and monitoring while Sizithande is overseeing the waste
management logistics and the collection of communal waste for recycling.
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This year, the programme went the extra mile to implement a food garden regime in open
communal spaces and individual communal homes. This model has become sustainable
in developing self-ownership of the programme, as well as buy-in from communal
beneficiaries. Up to 50 food gardens have been planted and sustained in beneficiary homes
thus far.
Harvested vegetables and food proceeds from the dump-converted gardens are donated to
orphans and vulnerable children in the community as well as to vulnerable residents. Over
10 organisations supporting orphans and vulnerable children have been supported with
vegetables through this programme.
With a focus on offsetting carbon emissions, the programme has further planted 5 000
indigenous Spekboom. This plant is known to help remove carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.
Since March this year, over 2 300 Spekboom have been planted in communal homes, schools
and early childhood development (ECD) centres around eMbalenhle.