This Mandela Day, Polyco will be sending out 2700 care packages to waste reclaimers at its Packa-Ching buy-back centres and its enterprise development projects located across the country. Waste reclaimers play a critical role within South Africa’s...
Polyco is working closely with a number of schools across South Africa to get one million South Africans committed to recycling their plastic waste. Among school children, the message around recycling is very quickly integrated into their daily...
Million Plus, a consumer recycling campaign led by Polyco PRO NPC, is aiming to mobilise more than one million South Africans to commit to recycling their plastic packaging to keep it out of the environment and out of landfill, and instead put it...
With the introduction of the extended-producer responsibility (EPR) regulations, a wider industry adoption of recyclate replacing raw materials, and several voluntary agreements that promote material circularity, all eyes are on the South African...
With recent legislation calling for a paper and packaging industry waste management plan the Polyolefin Recycling Company (Polyco) is urging stakeholders from the sector to give their input. Polyco, a not-for-profit industry body formed by the...
Over 700 Green Desks, made from 2 700kgs of recycled plastic waste collected from the 2017 Comrades and Two Oceans marathons, have been delivered to over 40 schools in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. The donation is part of the #GoGreen...
Thirty-two percent of plastic packaging produced annually worldwide is left to flow into the world’s oceans, according to the World Economic Forum. Mandy Naudé, CEO of Polyco, believes the solution to this problem starts with recycling. “Taking...
The South African plastics and packaging industry has raised R45 000 for a much needed seabird hospital at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) in Cape Town. The funds were raised during the Propak Cape...
Making bed bases from old car bumpers turned out to be anything but a rubbish idea for Graham Coleman and Gianni Nosenzo of Cycliq in Wadeville whose innovative Space Base Bed Base was awarded the SAPRO Trophy for the Best Recycled Product of the...
