As major retailers and brand owners begin to feel the pressure to be more environmentally-conscious, one of the country’s leading food packaging producers has become the first in the PET thermoform plastics sector to join voluntary national...
A new organisation has set out to turn the tide on corporate waste management and create jobs in the process. 5Inc, a new sister company to Economic Development Solutions (EDS) Holdings, specialises in project implementation in the areas of...
The South African waste recovery market is set for a major paradigm shift following the unveiling of the first world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine. The bio-brick, which is the handy work of researchers at the University of Cape Town, is...
Researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have designed and produced a biodegradable plastic packaging that could help curb the problem of food waste. The product, which is called Plasticor, reveals the quality of the food...