Tag: EPR
Petco welcomes new CEO
ONE of South Africa’s leading producer responsibility organisations (PRO), Petco, has bid farewell to industry stalwart Cheri Scholtz and welcomed a new CEO, Telly...
Over-extension of Extended Producer Responsibility?
SOUTH Africa recently published a set of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, which aim to extend companies' financial or physical responsibility for certain identified...
EPR is coming – will you be ready?
THE implementation of the Government’s upcoming EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) scheme is well advanced and impending legislation requires producers especially in the packaging industries...
EPR Explained – creating a true circular economy for plastics packaging
South Africa has recently published the Section 18 Regulations to the National Environmental Management: Waste Act on 5 November 2020, which refers to the...
EPR – What does it mean for waste in SA?
WHILE change has become fast paced and inevitable, one thing remains constant; the need to protect our environment. All possible means to do so,...