Tag: Recycling
Reducing waste at our fingertips
Every day, Cape Town generates about enough waste to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. In light of this, and following International Zero Waste Day, the City’s Urban Waste Management Directorate...
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...
Making Recycling a Habit! Fibre Circle brings the Green Economy to Good Work Foundation...
Environmental education has received a welcome boost in rural Mpumalanga and the Free State, thanks to a new partnership between education non-profit the Good Work...
MetPac-SA and Phoenix for the planet join forces to boost community recycling efforts
METPAC-SA - the Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) for South Africa’s metal packaging industry - has extended its partnership with Phoenix for the Planet, a...
South Africa’s plastic packaging industry and the European Union’s new packaging regulations
THE European Union’s Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) has introduced new regulations for plastic packaging that could have significant ripple effects on South...
MetPac-SA announces winners of inaugural research awards
METPAC-SA, the Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) representing the South African metal packaging industry, is proud to announce the winners of its first-ever research awards.
The...
ALPLA opens state-of-the-art recycling plant in South Africa
Production plant to supply up to 35,000 tonnes of recycled PET material per year from 2025
ALPLA is entering the South African PET recycling market....
Tetra Pak® Orange Grove, RFG Foods and Woodlands Dairy partner to educate on recycling Tetra...
Following last year’s successful pilot of its educational Recycle Carton competition in the Eastern Cape, Tetra Pak, world-leading food processing and packaging solutions company,...
Volkswagen – Water conservation awareness is key to sustainability
VOLKSWAGEN Group Africa commemorated World Water Week with an awareness campaign aimed at encouraging employees to be more mindful of their water usage.
During National...
How a lone yachtswoman helped transform waste management
By Hugh Tyrrell
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