With South Africa’s unemployment rate now at a staggering 29.1%, one Mpumalanga woman has come up with an initiative that will create over 250 jobs through a community-based recycling waste management centre in rural Mpumalanga.
The rapid rise in the global population, coinciding with the manufacturing, mining, processing and demand for consumer goods, has placed additional pressure on waste management. Whilst there is an ongoing effort to divert waste, both municipal and...
Plastics are often described as the most stubborn of waste streams, essential to modern life yet resistant to recycling systems. South African plastic recyclers tend to focus on niches like PET, which is highly recyclable, and view a lot of the...
The push to use recycled plastic as a raw material in manufacturing is essential to keeping recycling going, Oliver Bonstein, general manager of South African Plastics Recycling Organisation (SAPRO), says, “Without end-markets for recycled plastic...