Danone is among signatories to the SA Plastics Pact, which was launched last month by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Signatories pledge to reduce the use of non-recyclable and non-reusable plastic in their packaging processes. They will also source sustainable materials and create a second-life for all plastics.
South Africa’s waste sector stands at a crossroads. Years of analysis have confirmed what practitioners already know: The country’s solid waste management system is overburdened, underfunded, and misaligned with its sustainability ambitions, though...
We have all heard the benefits of recycling, and how it is meant to mitigate the harmful effects that landfills have, but how seriously does society take it? In recent years there has been a considerable global push toward recycling, and reuse that...
The reality is that recycling efforts are still subject to market conditions. It does not matter how innovative or environmentally positive a recycling effort is if there is no market for it. South Africa’s recycling sector needs to look at itself...