The top six schools involved in Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa’s (CCBSA) Schools Recycling Programme won a total of R200 000 in cash prizes at an award ceremony hosted in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. The overall winners in the primary and high...
Plastics SA has congratulated the Department of Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries (DEAFF) on the hosting of a very successful Plastics Colloquium in Boksburg recently. According to Anton Hanekom, Executive Director of Plastics SA, they...
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. Source: SABC...
Ford is doing its part to combat climate change by recycling old coffee waste from McDonald’s into car parts. The automaker will be taking food waste from the fast food giant, diverting it from a landfill to its laboratory, where it will be...
Experts have called for changes in the way municipalities dispose of waste in South Africa, saying that up to 90% of waste goes to landfills. Most of these landfills are uncontrolled dump sites. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)...
Plastic is not just an environmental issue, but it is also a socio-economic one. Plastic has been around since the 1950’s and unsurprisingly, plastic products are used by almost every sector of the economy. Projections are that the global...
“Looking back at the past 40 years, we stand amazed at the growth and many developments that have transpired in the industry. We have experienced many momentous occasions and highlights too many to mention, but we also had to learn how to roll with...
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...
While environmentalists rejoiced at the ban of hazardous liquid waste being disposed of at landfill, generators of liquid waste, waste management companies and landfill sites have had to find environmentally sustainable and cost-effective solutions...
