The works in the show, FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR, capture some of the flagship initiatives in the Nestlé ESAR (East and Southern Africa Region) sustainability programme, called RE. RE is centred around three principles: REthink, REduce and REpurpose. It is intertwined with Nestlé ESAR’s business strategy and value creation model, to help the business meet its commitment of reaching net zero by 2050.
The partnership with Dillon Marsh focused on three pilot projects:
o RE-Imagine Tomorrow in Tembisa, Gauteng
o Skimmelkrans in George, Western Cape
o Project Infrasalience in Hammanskraal, Gauteng.
Dillon’s work explores human relationships with the environment, and central in his visual vocabulary is an interrogation of landscapes. In this work, he creates a convergence point between the initiatives, their seemingly mundane day-to-day activities, the landscapes they’re on and the vast expanse of the sky above. He brings a certain clarity to the role of singular activities, highlighting their overall contribution to the transition from linear to circular. Using computer generated imagery, he invades the landscape with imagined physical representations of gases and liquids, to profile the positive impact of the interventions on the environment.
From Linear to Circular captures some of Nestlé ESAR’s sustainability journey, and reports back on the impact so far, of some flagship RE initiatives. It connects big audacious ideas about shifting society, with the simple circular principles that are a call to cation: REthink, REduce, REpurpose. In this work, is a snippet of what is possible for our continent as we ponder on the transition From Linear to Circular.
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Skimmelkrans
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RE-IMAGINE TOMORROW
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In a fast-paced consumer society, where today’s goods and commodities become tomorrow’s discards and leftovers, waste is everybody’s problem. Each of us, in the course of our lives, will throw away about 900 times our body weight in waste. Imagine the difference that could make to the planet.
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In the things we throw away, in the things we leave behind, in the things we no longer need, we leave a tangled legacy of the things we choose to consume. But we can choose, too, to rethink our habits as consumers, and to be more mindful of the impact of accumulated waste on the natural environment. What, in those heaps, can be REcycled? REused? REpurposed? There is value in waste, if we only take a moment to RE-Imagine its place in our lives.
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Imagining a future free of waste means RE-Imagining the way waste is collected, managed, and processed. Street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, community by community, informal waste-reclaimers are making a meaningful difference, going out of their way to solve a human problem on a human scale. In the process, they’re putting bread on their own tables, and reclaiming the dignity of a job worth doing, and worth doing well.
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Imagining a future free of waste means RE-Imagining the way waste is collected, managed, and processed. Street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, community by community, informal waste-reclaimers are making a meaningful difference, going out of their way to solve a human problem on a human scale. In the process, they’re putting bread on their own tables, and reclaiming the dignity of a job worth doing, and worth doing well.
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Imagining a future free of waste means RE-Imagining the way waste is collected, managed, and processed. Street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, community by community, informal waste-reclaimers are making a meaningful difference, going out of their way to solve a human problem on a human scale. In the process, they’re putting bread on their own tables, and reclaiming the dignity of a job worth doing, and worth doing well.
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Imagining a future free of waste means RE-Imagining the way waste is collected, managed, and processed. Street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, community by community, informal waste-reclaimers are making a meaningful difference, going out of their way to solve a human problem on a human scale. In the process, they’re putting bread on their own tables, and reclaiming the dignity of a job worth doing, and worth doing well.
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Lightweight and flexible, fashioned from fossil fuels, plastic is one of the most versatile materials ever invented. But it’s also among the most durable and can linger in the environment for centuries after being discarded. The solution: REclaim it, REcycle it, REuse it, REpurpose it. RE-Imagine Tomorrow recycled almost 80 tons of assorted plastics in 8 months, to make a material difference to the world.
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On paper, Nestlé’s RE-Imagine Tomorrow project may look like a dream: to create work, to uplift communities, and to generate value where once there was only waste. But paper is a form of value in and of itself, transforming into currency when it is collected, recycled, and reused. In 8 months, the project’s waste-reclaimers collected and tracked 4 tons of white paper, proving that dreams, when put to work, can turn a new leaf in the real world too.
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By giving a hand-up to informal waste-reclaimers, Nestlé ESAR’s RE-Imagine Tomorrow project is helping to sow the seeds for a world where waste means business. The project enables 150 waste-reclaimers to earn an income, by connecting them with willing buyers through the Kudoti platform. In turn, the waste they gather can be recycled, reused, and repurposed, setting the wheels of the circular economy in motion.
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By giving a hand-up to informal waste-reclaimers, Nestlé ESAR’s RE-Imagine Tomorrow project is helping to sow the seeds for a world where waste means business. The project enables 150 waste-reclaimers to earn an income, by connecting them with willing buyers through the Kudoti platform. In turn, the waste they gather can be recycled, reused, and repurposed, setting the wheels of the circular economy in motion.
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By giving a hand-up to informal waste-reclaimers, Nestlé ESAR’s RE-Imagine Tomorrow project is helping to sow the seeds for a world where waste means business. The project enables 150 waste-reclaimers to earn an income, by connecting them with willing buyers through the Kudoti platform. In turn, the waste they gather can be recycled, reused, and repurposed, setting the wheels of the circular economy in motion.
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By giving a hand-up to informal waste-reclaimers, Nestlé ESAR’s RE-Imagine Tomorrow project is helping to sow the seeds for a world where waste means business. The project enables 150 waste-reclaimers to earn an income, by connecting them with willing buyers through the Kudoti platform. In turn, the waste they gather can be recycled, reused, and repurposed, setting the wheels of the circular economy in motion.
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Project Infrasalience
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Reaching for the sky, the giant towers of Babelegi point the way to a cleaner, greener tomorrow. By capturing carbon during the final stages of production, the plant is pioneering a process of REduction, REcycling, and REpurposing that is setting a benchmark of best practice for the world.
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Pipedreams are illusions, drifting into the ether on spirals of fantasy and hope. But here’s a pipe-fact for you to ponder: People can change the world. All we need to do is turn our dreams into action. At Nestlé ESAR’s Babelegi plant, the proof is in the process, as cutting-edge technology captures carbon from flue gas emissions, recycles industrial wastewater, and creates sustainable green products.
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Pipedreams are illusions, drifting into the ether on spirals of fantasy and hope. But here’s a pipe-fact for you to ponder: People can change the world. All we need to do is turn our dreams into action. At Nestlé ESAR’s Babelegi plant, the proof is in the process, as cutting-edge technology captures carbon from flue gas emissions, recycles industrial wastewater, and creates sustainable green products.
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In the clinical confines of a laboratory, the magic of industrial alchemy transforms captured carbon into a chemical compound called NaHCO3, better known as sodium bicarbonate, or as you may know it in your own household: baking soda, the leavening agent that adds texture to your daily bread and pastries. But transformation at the plant extends well beyond the recycling and revitalisation of water and other chemical compounds. Here, lives too are transformed, thanks to an employment programme that trains, empowers, and uplifts people from the surrounding community.
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In the clinical confines of a laboratory, the magic of industrial alchemy transforms captured carbon into a chemical compound called NaHCO3, better known as sodium bicarbonate, or as you may know it in your own household: baking soda, the leavening agent that adds texture to your daily bread and pastries. But transformation at the plant extends well beyond the recycling and revitalisation of water and other chemical compounds. Here, lives too are transformed, thanks to an employment programme that trains, empowers, and uplifts people from the surrounding community.
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The world is a circle that rotates around a bigger circle, and with every revolution, we too go through cycles of change and transformation. In the same way, in the quest to protect and conserve our planet, we need to shift our thinking from a linear to a circular economy. Let’s REthink, REduce, and REpurpose wherever and whatever we can, to keep the world turning towards a better tomorrow. It makes good sense, for business, for industry, for the environment, and for every one of us.
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For all the talk of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that is reshaping our lives through the power of digital technology, Artificial Intelligence, and robotics, let’s not forget the real revolution that is shaping the future of the planet itself. It’s called the circular economy, and it turns on new ways of thinking about the goods and commodities we use every day. How can we best reuse, recycle, and repurpose them? How can we REduce the harm we’re doing to the environment? It all begins with REthinking. It all begins with us.
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Every drop of water harbours the essence of life. It nurtures, it replenishes, it sustains. We call our planet Earth, but water is its superpower, and the more we can save it, the more we can save ourselves. At Nestlé ESAR’s Babelegi plant, the carbon capture process has led to water-savings of 292,500 kilolitres a year, while 60,000 litres a day — that’s as much water as there is in a typical swimming-pool — is REcycled through the slurry every day. To look at the world through the lens of water is to see, with crystal clarity, how much it means to our future, and how much we can do to keep the future flowing.
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NESTLÉ ESAR
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From Linear to Circular captures some of Nestlé ESAR’s sustainability journey, and reports back on the impact so far, of some flagship RE initiatives. It connects big audacious ideas about shifting society, with the simple circular principles that are a call to cation: REthink, REduce, REpurpose. In this work, is a snippet of what is possible for our continent as we ponder on the transition From Linear to Circular.