Pick n Pay has launched a ‘nude wall’ with a wide range of package-free fruit and vegetables in 13 stores across South Africa. This is in an effort to deal with plastic waste. The company’s marketing retail executive John Bradshaw...
The Western Cape is ranked number one on a national list of 2019 recycling champions. Following the recent announcement of a 6% year-on-year increase in the recycling of PET plastic bottles, national industry body the PET Recycling Company (Petco)...
Pick n Pay (PnP) has signed up as a member of MetPac-SA, a producer responsibility organisation representing the metal packaging recycling industry in South Africa. MetPac-SA CEO Kishan Singh this week applauded PnP’s decision to support the...
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), together with sector role players, has developed guidelines for how municipalities can formally integrate waste pickers. Waste pickers collect between 80% and 90% of all of the post-consumer packaging...
