South Africa celebrates National Disability Rights Awareness Month annually between 3 November and 3 December each year. As part of national Disability Month, the Polystyrene Packaging Council (PSPC) is encouraging people to collect their breadtags...
This week the Southern African Vinyls Association (SAVA) released the results of its first ever Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Recycling Survey into the state, scope and size of the local PVC recycling market. The information obtained from the survey...
Networking, debate and lessons learnt were the order of the day at the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa’s (IWMSA) Eastern Cape branch’s waste management conference held from 14 to 15 October this year . With the theme of The Road to...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) is hosting a three-day Hazardous Waste Management Training programme from 10 – 12 November 2015 at Plastics|SA in Midrand. The training programme has been updated to include the new...
New data compiled by Beverage Marketing Corp. (BMC), New York, shows that between 2000 and 2014 the average weight of a 16.9-ounce (half-liter) single-serve polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle of water has declined 52% to 9.25 grams. This has...
Products made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) can be hard to recycle. Although South Africa saw a 3.9% increase in the total amount of PVC diverted from landfill in 2014 (18 488 tons), vinyl is still often, and wrongly, regarded as being...
Let’s face it – it’s going to be a waste of time teaching your kids to live a green lifestyle if you don’t act that way yourself. Just recycling here and there, whenever the urge takes you, isn’t going to do anyone any good – especially the planet....
Two attempts to bribe SARS officials to release goods stopped at border posts this week were thwarted and the suspects arrested‚ the South African Revenue Service has revealed. It said that on Tuesday members of the SARS Tactical Intervention Unit...
The creation of South Africa’s first gigantic “green city” is the result of the largest mixed-use precinct ever to be built in Tshwane. With the construction of Menlyn Maine, the traditionally residential suburb of Menlyn in Pretoria East has...
