It is alleged that the City of Cape Town is spending approximately half a million rand a year on maintaining an old landfill site. The dump site, located beneath the popular kite-surfing beach of Witsands between Kommetjie and Scarborough, was used...
The five-week-long Pikitup strike finally came to an end this week. The repercussions of the strike however will need to be dealt with for weeks to come. Rubbish piled up in the City of Johannesburg while workers took part in an unprotected strike,...
The Paper Recycling Association of South Africa is calling on South Africans to give the country a spring clean during the 2014 Clean-Up SA and Recycle Week from 15 to 19 September, on National Recycling Day on 19 September and the 29th...
An ongoing strike by more than 2 000 Chitungwiza Town council workers in Zimbabwe has resulted in the area becoming overwhelmed by uncollected waste. According to local reports, council workers downed tools after going for nearly a year without...
Tuffy Brands, SA’s first accredited recycled refuse bag manufacturer, has introduced South Africa’s first 100% recycled insect repellent bag. The refuse bags contain Vital Protection by HHL technology, previously used for protection against...
The rainy season has begun in the Philippines. Every year floods kill hundreds of people across the country and cause millions of dollars worth of damage. Now one environmental group is teaching people how to save lives through recycling rubbish....
