The difference between a circular economy and a recycling economy, and why we should care By Hermann Erdman, CEO of REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa) Our dominant linear ‘take-make-consume-dispose’ economy...
Last week, in observance of #WorldOceansDay, Plastics|SA launched plans for its annual Clean-Up & Recycle Week SA – taking place from 12 to 17 of September this year. Highlights of 2016’s upcoming activities include a national clean-up and...
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa will today, 23 June, launch the Working on Waste (WoW) programme in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The WoW programme seeks to address the problem of increased volumes of waste and the backlog in the...
The City of Ekurhuleni scooped the top award for the best managed municipal landfill sites in Gauteng at the Waste Khoro 2016 conference held in Durban last week. The city has five operational landfill sites at Rooikraal, Weltevreden, Rietfontein,...
