Industry experts are calling for consumers to learn about the environmental benefits of recycling.  Michelene Locke, sales director at ITB Flexible Packaging Solutions (ITB), a Novus Holdings company, says that consumers need to understand why...
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), together with sector role players, has developed guidelines for how municipalities can formally integrate waste pickers. Waste pickers collect between 80% and 90% of all of the post-consumer packaging...
The Department of Environmental Affairs recently hosted a National Waste Pickers Integration Workshop to provide insight into the role of waste pickers in the recycling sector. The workshop also discussed the draft national guidelines on waste...
Used motor lubricant is dirty, hazardous stuff. Yet the collection of used oil in South Africa has provided business success stories for many eco-entrepreneurs who are not only making a living, but who are also making a difference to the...
A new technology may help to create jobs, clean the environment and contribute to the local construction industry by upcycling plastic into durable cement. South Africa creates and uses over one million tonnes of unrecycled plastic waste which can...
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...
Vodacom has pledged to promote sustainable waste management practices in support of government’s ThumaMina Good Green Deeds Programme. The ThumaMina Good Green Deeds programme was initiated by the Department of Environmental Affairs, with the...
A new recycling scheme in Amsterdam is quite literally turning waste into worth by taking waste products that would otherwise end up in landfill and converting them into currency. Source: World Economic Forum
Waste Management giant Averda will be extending its service offering in Morocco, following the signing of a 20 year contract with Tangier City. Â The contract will see a team of local and international engineers guiding the conception, construction...
