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mama me-time | women of the month

women of the month

Green Goddess

Alice Hartley

It all began when her husband Errol came home
from work and told her of the interesting news.
“Three months ago, he told me that one of his
colleagues’ fathers is into the French Red Cross,”

says Alice Hartley, 39. This had immediately
sparked her fancy prodding her to find out more
of what she can do to contribute.The project is
dubbed Bottle Tops for Wheelchairs, Prosthetic

Limbs, Building Schools and Orphanages.

mother, baby & child April 2011 I ndeed, it is nothing short of She had come to a Green Goddess of the Month
a miracle. “Little blue and realisation that she and her is sponsored by Build Green,
orange bits of plastic are husband alone consume five the region’s first sustainable
transformed into the freedom bottles of milk, water and juices business-to-business magazine
of mobility for paraplegic kids, a day. Even more, she had with a consumer one soon to
the victims of civil wars in Africa: observed that her company follow. We’ll keep you posted!
wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs,” housing 120 employees do
she adds, “Collected lids fetch the same with an average of
a better price from recycling 500 on a daily basis! “I knew I
companies and the heavy-duty could do something in Dubai,”
plastic also takes longer than she speaks of her epiphany. So
other types to biodegrade instead of putting all the plastic
giving the collection additional bottle lids to waste, she had
environmental benefits as well taken it on herself to collect
as the robustness required for them and have Errol’s colleague
wheelchairs and prosthetics by shipped them off to France.
active children.”
The Hartleys attest

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