The North West provincial government is set to launch its first state owned waste buy-back centre in Mahikeng, as part of a waste management plan. Through the buy-back centre waste collectors will be able to sell recyclable waste like paper,...
With Clean-up and Recycle Week taking place in September the question everyone is asking is whether or not South Africans are doing enough? SABC Digital News digs deeper. Source: SABC Digital News
Sandton Central, and many of its local businesses, has welcomed the implementation of the City of Johannesburg’s mandatory separation-at-source programme. With the City’s landfills fast running out of space, fast, its voluntary separation-at-source...
A dairy factory based in the coastal town of Mossel Bay in the Western Cape, has been declared the first zero water technologies site in the Southern Hemisphere. The plant, which was launched by the minister of Water and Sanitation recently, is a...
Over a million tonnes of paper and paper packaging were diverted from landfill in 2017. This is according to the latest recycling figures released by the Paper Recycling Association of South Africa (PRASA). This tonnage represents 70% of the 1.8...
The uncontrolled dumping of waste is one of the major challenges facing Africa. This is according to the first waste management outlook for Africa launched in Pretoria this week. The report, which was released by the United Nations Environment and...
While recycling figures rise and South Africans gain a general understanding of the benefits of recycling, Mpact Recycling managing director, John Hunt, says people may not realise just how much good they are doing. According to the Paper Recycling...
Pikitup has ring-fenced more than R12 million to renovate and upgrade the City of Johannesburg’s garden sites in line with it objectives to encourage recycling and divert waste from landfill. The Independent Online on Monday reported that the...
While Cape residents are still reeling from the water crisis gripping the region, the province could soon be facing a waste crisis as landfills are almost at maximum capacity. According to the Western Cape Environmental Affairs Department some of...
