Good news for households and waste collectors – paper grocery and take-away food bags can be collected for recycling Under a new campaign name, “Recycling in the Bag”, Fibre Circle, the producer responsibility organisation for the paper sector,...
Looking at waste paper as a resource instead of a liability will help the paper and print industry go a long way in adopting sustainable natural resource management. According to the World Bank, about 1.6 billion people depend on forest...
The anaerobic digestion method by R Melamu*, A Lampard*, K Schafer* and H von Blottnitz* Waste paper can account for a considerable fraction of the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream. There is a limit to how much recycled fibre in paper can be used...
Mpact Recycling reports that paper recycling has grown almost exponentially, with the volume of paper recovered for recycling in South Africa increasing by almost a third in the last ten years. At this rate, it can be around 63% by 2017. This,...
