The Department of Environmental Affairs will looks into developing regulations to improve waste management. “It is imperative for us to introduce innovative approaches in dealing with waste particularly focusing on diverting waste from landfill...
How can plastic products be made more sustainable over their entire life cycle and how can the effects of plastic waste on the environment be reduced? These are some of the questions asked in a recently published green paper from the European...
Announced today (12 June), The Eco-Logic Awards, hosted by The Enviropaedia (in association with SABC3), have extended their entry deadline to 30 June. Organisations and individuals can submit their products, services, innovations and achievements...
Recycling can be a great contributor to the South African economy with job creation opportunities and direct benefits to the environment. Maryke Foulds asks John Hunt, managing director of Mpact Recycling, to take us through the process. Recycling...
The annual ABI School Recycling Awards was an uplifting event, showcasing young learner’s talent and commitment to recycling, writes Maryke Foulds. Amalgamated Beverage Industries (ABI), the soft drink division of South African Breweries –...
Maryke Foulds speaks to Cheri Scholtz of PETCO and Chris Els of Kaytech about ten years of recycling cooperation. Please give me some background on Kaytech and its involvement in the PET recycling industry Kaytech (originally Noel Hunt Geofabrics),...
Having begun their partnership in 2011, Kaytech is pleased to announce they have entrenched their relationship again with PETCO as a Category A partner, increasing the economically viable collection and recycling of post-consumer PET in South...
Angola plans to create a waste agency tasked with regulating, monitoring and laying the basis for a selective and differentiated collection system. Angola will launch the Programa Angola Limpa which will run until 2017, under which the waste agency...
The Polystyrene Council is driving a dynamic marketing and awareness campaign of its various charity projects to schools across Gauteng. According to PSPC Director, Adri Spangenberg, twenty new schools have committed themselves during the month of...
