Initiatives like the newly launched and game-changing South African (SA) Plastics Pact aims to tackle the plastic pollution problem head on, by keeping plastics ‘in the economy and out of the environment’. Launched on the 30th of...
The construction of the first of nine new regional waste disposal facilities in the Western Cape has started in Mossel Bay. The new facility will serve multiple municipalities along the Garden Route and is aimed at...
The award-winning Mariannhill Landfill site is facing imminent closure. eThekwini Municipality has terminated some of its operations and will only accept garden waste, cover material and builders’ rubble at the landfill due to the dwindling...
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...
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) wrote to the City of Cape Town to request a meeting to find workable solutions to fix the sewage pollution crisis within the Diep River and Milnerton Lagoon. According to Andrea Korff, Legal Project...
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has introduced a 2L returnable bottle made of PET plastic that offers consumers value for money and is also good for the environment. These new returnable bottles can be reused up to 14 times. Thereafter...
Scientists have allegedly figured out a way to recycle plastic hundreds of times without losing the quality of the material. Most plastics can only be recycled two or three times before the quality degrades so much so that it becomes unusable,...
Twenty South African companies have committed to reducing plastic pollution drastically in the next five years. Source:...
Work has started to clear waste collection backlogs following the dismissal of 49 waste workers in Kempton Park. All depot managers are on alert with regard to management of holding employee meetings during working hours, some of which have led to...
