Speech by the City’s Executive Mayor, Patricia de Lille, at the
signing of an agreement for pioneering waste-to-energy pilot
project
Note to editors: Mayor De Lille delivered this speech at the signing of a
Memorandum of Understanding today, 12 March 2014, for the pilot survey for
disseminating small and medium enterprises technologies for the conversion
of plastic waste to fuel
Ms Namie Fukuda, CEO of CFP Corporation
Mr Ryuichi Mase, Managing Director of KANEMIYA Co., Ltd
Mr Hiroyuki Kinomoto, Chief Representative: Japan International Cooperation
Agency, South Africa Office
Mr Yukio Yoshii, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Japan
Members of the Mayoral Committee
The City Manager, Mr Achmat Ebrahim
The Executive Director for Utility Services, Ms Gisela Kaiser
Ladies and Gentlemen
Good morning.
I would like to welcome you all to the City of Cape Town today.
This is a wonderful opportunity for building partnerships.
We have committed ourselves to finding examples of best practice in the
world and to bringing these to Cape Town to enhance our government
structures.
Sometimes these types of partnership mean investment.
Sometimes they mean a transfer of skills.
Yet other times they mean a legacy.
I believe that, to varying degrees, we have features of each of these in this
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Pilot Survey for Disseminating
Small and Medium Enterprises Technologies for Conversion of Plastic Waste to
Fuel for Sustainable Waste Management.
By sharing this technology with us in a pilot site, the consortium will help grow
the knowledge and skills base of the city.
Further you will help us explore potential environmentally friendly solutions
and solutions of potential economic benefit, to the city as an organisation
and a place.
This pilot site is a solid demonstration of our willingness to try new things and
new technologies to improve our efficiency and our performance.
I think that this is especially important in light of the fact that this year Cape
Town is the World Design Capital for 2014.
This means that we are encouraging projects of innovation, creativity and
potential – now and in the future.
I think that this pilot site has the potential to be just such a project.
While I will not anticipate any outcomes for the project, I think we should
appreciate the fact that we are taking a chance with this experiment and
giving it the space to succeed or fail, in the best tradition of trying new things.
I would therefore like to thank the Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA),CFP Corporation, INGEROSEC, KANEMIYA Company, and the
Japanese embassy.
Please consider yourselves valued friends and partners of Cape Town.
Thank you.