A MILLICENT resident is leading the charge towards a green future, donating a bottle caps for recycling to the Kangaroo Inn Area School’s Envision Project drive.
John O’Connell recently brought around two years’ worth of caps to the Millicent Library to be donated to the project, which will be recycled to help create prosthetic limbs and mobility aids for children.
Mr O’Connell still recalls learning caps could not be recycled with their bottles through the documentary series War On Waste, the information changing his life for the better.
“I was inspired and since then I have just been collecting the caps,” Mr O’Connell said.
“It’s pretty simple and all it takes is making it a habit,” he said.
“Whenever I’m finished with something I just quickly wash the cap and put it in a little bucket near the sink or in my shed.
“There’s what, seven billion people on this earth? And counting? Imagine if everyone could do something small like this, what a difference it would make.”
Mr O’Connell encouraged residents to collect caps to donate to the Kangaroo Inn Area School’s donation drive to support the Envision Project.
The project will use the caps to extract the filaments before creating prosthetic limbs and mobility aids for children via a 3D printer.
Participating schools are also in the running to win educational resources.
“I thought that was really good, the end result could be helping the school,” Mr O’Connell said.
Mr O’Connell hopes to see more collection points introduced around Millicent.
