The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has urged South African consumers to make it a waste-free festive season. Its mantra is to ‘refuse, reduce and reuse’ – then recycle. This involves taking reusable products back to shops, cut down on packaging and recycle as much as possible.
Over the past decade, society started switching to glass bottles to avoid microplastics. As it turns out, that big sustainable swap comes with 50 times the microplastic payload. According to recent research by France’s ANSES (the French...
South Africa is under pressure to reduce waste to landfill and build a circular economy. This comes at a time when landfills are filling up, climate change is increasing severe weather events, and the world is looking to more sustainable economic...
Waste Oil is an environmental hazard; one litre of waste oil can pollute one million litres of fresh water. Coupled with scarcity, lubricating oil accounts for 2-3% of a barrel of crude oil; the need to recycle waste oil is urgent. EWOR...