The environment is at real risk. Hence we all need to do something.

• NOT to discourage economic development and job creation,

• BUT to take responsibility…

  - Waste is becoming a dire threat

  - Trees are being cut down at an alarming rate

  - Fertile soil is irreparably damaged

  - Consumerism is at its height

• We have to take action to replace energy resources and restore some kind of balance

RECYLING IS NOW SA LAW. [See Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) website

www.environment.gov.za and click the link to the National Waste Management strategy.]

Hence we have to do something. ‘We’ are:

• Big industries, big events

• Shopping centres & small initiatives

• Schools

• Individuals & communities

Basic recycling includes:

• Glass recovery

• Paper

• Cans

• Plastics (PET)

• Electronics, batteries, ‘white goods’

And this is exactly what Moonprint Concerts for the Earth is doing. We recycle events and festivals,

teach communities to recycle, install recycling facilities at schools, retail and office facilities and in

communities, organize clean‐ups in public spaces, educate show and tell, and much more…

A.         MISSION STATEMENT 

To create awareness of and supply information about the dominant imperative for recycling – as

well as organise hands‐on activities to enable schools, organisations, individuals and others on

where to start with the greening process. These awareness activities often centre around music

concerts and other artistic events through which public awareness is heightened.

B.         PRIMARY GOAL

Moonprint and its organisational partners have created a national ‘green portal’ through which we

can refocus the people of our country’s attention on to how we are damaging the planet and our

environment – and, more importantly, what can be done to salvage it.

Essentially Moonprint is harnessing the forceful medium of music to attract attention to and bring

across the message of recycling and a healthier environment; but also through various other

follow‐up or advance tangible and pro‐active actions, such as educational projects at schools,

establishing recycling facilities in public spaces, public clean‐ups, et cetera.

There are already ongoing and sustainable clean up actions, in tandem with concerts in various

communities (e.g. Mooiplaats informal settlement, Mamelodi, Ga‐Rankuwa, Oppikoppi (Northam),

FORR (Ponta Malongane, Mozambique), Johannesburg CBD, Nelspruit (Innibos), Potchefstroom

(Aardklop), taxi ranks, various schools, etc…) and, of course, each ‘concert’ and its line‐up and

affiliated actions is tailored to suit the community.

The ultimate aim is to have a broad network, including environmental specialists and assorted

responsible organisations through which all sectors of South Africa can participate, become

aware, recycle, learn and attune. 

JOB CREATION is an added bonus – and has become one of the most effective tools to reach

communities; train personnel and empower them to continue with recycling throughout and so

provide income from the recycling stations.

• Education and illustration at school assemblies and other youth events

• Tree planting and vegetable garden development at schools, orphanages, historically

disadvantaged communities and informal settlements

• Establishing permanent recycling facilities at these areas – creating jobs and income potential

Events & festivals

• Recycling at events and festivals: glass, cans, paper, plastic, batteries, electronics, other

• Events & festivals earn the ‘Moonprint endorsement stamp’ – indicating that it’s a green event

• Establishing recycling facilities around events, mostly permanent

Clean up projects

Together with municipalities and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), to:

• Identify, and

• Initiate clean‐up activities

• Install permanent recycling facilities, with appointed staff

With the help of:

• Youth

• Artists

• The public and volunteers

• Students and school children

Recycling staff are:

• Trained to recycle, with a proper curriculum and government approved certification

• Given positions at permanent recycling facilities

• Encouraged to form their own recycling hubs in their communities with our assistance

2. Events

On Saturday 18 April 2009 Moonprint Productions had its inaugural Moonprint Concert for the

Earth at Steak & Ale Music Restaurant in Pretoria from 3pm until way after midnight.

- Since then, confirmed clients and events, include:

All Oppikoppi Productions events in Gauteng

‐   Facilitating recycling at all events

‐   Creating awareness among audience

Oppikoppi (Northam)

-   Recycling

-   Green concert

-   Clean‐up after the festival

Pink Jacaranda Music Affair

-   Recycling the whole event

-   Facilitate permanent recycling outposts at the venue

Pretoria Show

A Moonprint music stage for the duration (ten days) together with Oppikoppi.

Activities include:

-   A major CBD cleanup project (beforehand) with the Metro Council, artists and the public

-   Stalls (for free for our green partners) with marketing opportunities. Our green partners

    include Greenpeace, Trees4Schools, Mondi Recycling, The Glass Recycling Co, Petco,

    Collect‐acan, Ripples for Good, Soapkidz, and more

-   Recycling throughout the duration of the show

-   Clean up after the show

Aardklop Arts Festival (Potchefstroom)

-   On the central arena – afternoon and evening programmes, with free stalls for our green

    partners

-   Recycling marketing with one day full concert

-   Clean-up activities in townships and taxi ranks

-   Tree planting and creation of vegetable gardens in Extension 11

Old Mutual Encounters (Emmarentia Dam, Johannesburg) with Oppikoppi – continuous

-   Every first Saturday or Sunday of the month – recycling the events

-   To facilitate permanent recycling outposts for households in the region

Nasrec (Johannesburg)

-   Recycling at events, including Toyrun and Rand Easter Show

SA Air Force training base (Thaba Tshwane)

-   750+ staff and trainees

-   Full recycling of base

-   Curriculum development for all cadets

 Soccer Fan Park at Fountains Valley (Pta)

-   500+ Dutch guests daily from 11 – 15 July 2010

-   Full recycling of event

-   Daily separation at source and collection

Extension 11 (Potchefstroom)

-   Tree planting with Childline at the Aids orphanage

-   Vegetable garden development with Trees4Schools

Recycling done in first year to date

-   Pink Jacaranda Music Affair (Pta)

-   Pretoria Show

-   Moonprint Concerts for the Earth (various) and Botha Ave Centre

-   Aardklop Arts Festival (Potch)

-   Old Mutual Encounters @ Emmarentia Dam (Jhb)

-   Oppikoppi (Northam)

-   Piet Botha Jamboree (2 tons glass)

-   Various clean‐ups (Marabastad, Mamelodi, Centurion, Potch, Ga‐Rankuwa, etc)

-   Various schools, centres and estates in Tshwane and surrounds

TOTAL RECYCLING DONE IN FIRST YEAR: 2 500+ tons

-   Clean ups on regular basis

-   To facilitate recycling in the whole of Ivory Park

-   Creating awareness among the community

-   Write recycling plan and assist in implementing the roll out

-   To develop vegetable gardens, plant trees, etc

-   Permanent recycling hubs all over the region

Ga‐Rankuwa Arrive and Shine environmental forum

-   Clean ups on regular basis

-   Partnering with Tshwane to facilitating recycling in the whole of Ga‐Rankuwa

-   Creating awareness among the community

-   Write recycling plan and assist in implementing the roll out

-   Permanent recycling hubs all over the region

F.         FORMAT & OPERATIONS 

•   The creation and management of a sustainable and enduring ‘greening programme’

•   Made visible through music events & festivals with some of the country’s top artists

•   With pre‐emptive and follow‐through activities, such as clean‐ups, tree planting and

    education

•   Attached to community projects such as in Tshwane and at Ivory Park and Ga‐Rankuwa

Organisational and founding partners

•  Steak & Ale Music Restaurant (Charlene McKenzie)

•  Pentatonik Artist Solutions (Ronel Nel)

•  Oppikoppi Productions (Misha Loots & the whole team)

•  SAMusic.co.za (Robin Moorby)

•  FORR (Fellowship of Rock ‘n Roll) (Linda & Frans Human)

•  Veneziano Attorneys (Lydia Steffens)

Current environmental partners

•  Greenpeace

•  The Glass Recycling Company of SA

•  Mondi Recycling (paper recycling)

•  PETco (plastic recycling organisation)

•  PSPC (polystyrene)

•  Plastics Federation of SA/Enviromark

•  Collect‐a‐can

•  Gintar Tech Pty (Ltd) South Africa

•  Gintar Tech Industries Ghana (Ltd)

•  Trees4Schools & Puro Coffees

•  Soapkidz

•  Ripples for Good

•  Tshwane Waste Management Department

•  Greenwise Recycling

•  Jahmy Recycling

•  Green Planet Recycling

•  The Glass Recycling Company of SA, Pretoria

Recycling and environmental organisations are invited to join the Moonprint initiative and climb

onto the green band wagon to wherever these concerts and its aligned activities are taking us.

Sponsors are encouraged to join the chorus of awareness, by actually contributing to sustainable,

tangible recycling and clean‐up actions. Eventually, also to assist in lobbying with the government

to enforce environmental and recycling laws – laws that are already in existence.

G.         FUTURE BUSINESS EXPANSION

• To establish a full‐time, fully staffed Moonprint office
• To target and assist ALL festivals and major sports stadiums in SA to do recycling
• To assist all (Gauteng, initially) municipalities with recycling, esp. in historically disadvantaged areas
• To target major shopping centres and assist in establishing permanent facilities
• To have more Moonprint concerts to raise public awareness
• To get all (Gauteng, initially) schools to recycle on a permanent basis
• To be able to do clean ups on a weekly basis

H.        ULTIMATE AIM

•  To, via our synergistic recycling actions, create jobs on a major scale – by training cleaners to

    become CORE and assisting them to establish recycling hubs in their own communities

•  Recycling staff will be needed on a broad scale – we’ll develop a curriculum; provide training,

    and also receive the means to deploy them in their own communities