At the start of October, Pikitup rolled out its second phase its Separation at Source Project to the Zondi serviced depot areas in Soweto. The project not only encourages residents to recycle their household refuse, which is ordinarily tossed away,...
The Plastics Institute of South Africa (PISA) has announced the winners of the Student Design Competition, held in partnership with POLYCO (the industry association promoting the recycling of polyolefin plastics in South Africa), Plastics|SA,...
According to Plastics|SA’s third annual survey of the plastics recycling industry in South Africa, the recycling of plastics has demonstrated a year-on-year increase in the total tonnage being converted since the survey in 2009. In 2011 South...
Polystyrene recycling is becoming a strong focus in South Africa and last week, we reported on an initiative in Pretoria East for kerbside collections of this waste, along with the Polystyrene Packaging Council. Now it seems that chemists in the...
