Plastics SA has taken a bold stance in the midst of worldwide calls to ban and reduce plastics: waging war on plastic is not the answer. Instead, the time has come to start waging war on plastic pollution, says Anton Hanekom, executive director of...
Several international consumer goods companies operating across Africa have come together to launch the Africa Plastics Recycling Alliance. Â This Alliance, which was launched at the at the CEO Africa Forum in Kigali, aims to turn the current...
A group of Cape Town based Greenpeace Africa volunteers has started an ambitious campaign calling on South Africa’s top political parties to adopt a ban on single-use plastics in their election manifestos ahead of this year’s...
South Africa’s fast growing plastic pollution crisis requires a rational solution not an emotional one. This is the view of Anton Hanekom, Executive Director of Plastics SA. Speaking at the ProPak Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg recently...
The Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape will embark on a journey to build the first “plastic road” in Africa. The approach could spell the end of potholes, create jobs and help save the planet. For more this story we are joined on...
The Polystyrene Association of South Africa says plastics are not the problem everyone has made them out to be and that a lack of appropriate waste disposal infrastructure is the real challenge. This comes after a Portfolio Committee on...
Plastics SA has welcomed the Department of Environmental Affairs’ acknowledgement that government has failed to develop competent waste management facilities in the country. The Department admitted, in Parliament yesterday, that municipalities are...
The Department of Environmental Affairs is currently investigating possible solutions on how to handle the problem of single-use plastics like straws and earbuds. Speaking on the banning of single-use plastics Mark Gordon, the department’s deputy...
Plastic, once a modern day miracle, has fast become public enemy number one as the growing demand for these products has created a serious waste problem around the world. This has prompted activist groups to turn their attention to consumer goods...
