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.
Every day, across our country, waste pickers walk kilometres collecting recyclable material to earn a living, and in doing so, they divert thousands of tonnes from landfill. Today, on Global Recycling Day, the PRO Alliance celebrates the successful...
As my tenure as President of the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with immense gratitude on what has been one of the most rewarding chapters of my professional life. Serving as...
Despite a challenging year for South Africa’s recycling economy, grassroots buy-back centres are experiencing a 20-30 per cent spike in productivity thanks to critical infrastructure investment in their collection and recycling efforts. The...