Excitement is mounting in the local waste management and recycling industries ahead of the colloquium that will take place in partnership with the European Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisation (EPRO) on the 21st of November, 2013. A 15 man delegation, representing various streams of the European recycling industry, will be visiting South Africa for EPRO’s first-ever … [Read more...]
Waste is everyone’s business
An overall strategy addressing waste management would need to consider not only the environmental implications of waste management, but the economic and social implications as well. Importantly, the monies collected and energy spent on recycling should be used specifically for the development of product markets. So said Lutske Newton, the lead drafter of the National … [Read more...]
Can dolphins win competition?
Creston College from KZN won first place and the prize money of R10 000 in the Collect-a-Can 2010 CAN Craze Competition for their can-stuction of dolphins playing with a soccer ball. Despite Collect-a-Can not specifying a theme for the competition there was a strong emphasis on soccer and the 2010 Fifa World Cup this year. Second place and prize money of R 7 000 goes to … [Read more...]
Wastecon 2010 teach youth about waste management
In an attempt to get the youth more involved and interested in the field of waste management the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) invited the learners from two schools to attend the WasteCon 2010 exhibition in Johannesburg and charged them 'an article made out of waste materials' each to enter. Grade 8 to 10 learners from Hoërskool Marais Viljoen and … [Read more...]
Keeping warm in recycled bottles
It's the middle of a cold and stormy Cape winter and your hollow-fill duvet or thermal underwear might just be made from recycled PET. The most common container in the soft drink market today in South Africa is the plastic bottle, the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle. The PET container is the transparent, rigid plastic bottle used to package bottled water, carbonated … [Read more...]
