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.
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...
Desco Electronic Recyclers has partnered with ThorTech, a leader in advanced radiation protection solutions, to elevate safety standards and operational efficiency within the electronics recycling industry. This collaboration integrates ThorTech’s...
The waste sector has to stay up to date with the latest trends in environmental protection. With new technologies and policies springing up around South Africa’s move towards the circular economy, older technology must be re-evaluated in favour of...