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...
A material recovery organisation representing the steel, tinplate and aluminium packaging industries in South Africa, is reminding South Africans that recycling their metals matter to the thousands of schools, collectors and convertors who earn a...
By Patrick Dowling, WESSA: Western Cape Regional Membership Beyond the clamour around who’s to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of day zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, the drought, now...
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...
