Waste is a risk and it costs money. It only makes sense that it needs to be managed by a professional that is focused on reducing your waste.
Wasteplan is that professional.
“How do we do well by doing good?” This was the focus of the Green Team event at Spier of our previously local, but now national, leading waste minimisation company, Wasteplan.
Recycling in Pretoria is going from strength to strength. All homes, flats and townhouses are now served by a domestic recycling collection company.
Some folk are just too 'comfortable' to appreciate a good thing, or do they just not care?
'The government has created the New Domestic Waste Collection Standards for municipalities to measure their own waste reduction strategies against, as all municipalities are obliged to organise separation at source,' said Bertie Lourens, MD of Wasteplan, during a chat with Redi Thlabi on Radio 702.
This month another milestone in the roll out of waste minimisation in our country is reached, when Cape Town's northern suburbs join the Think Twice curb-side recycling initiative to have their domestic recyclables collected and transported to a nearby materials recovery centre.
In many areas of the City of Cape Town, recycling is no longer something you wonder how to participate in, where to deliver your waste, or whom to call.
For millions of years all waste served as food for some organisms to live off and thrive.
Katy, or Oumatjie as the community calls her, runs from her small one bedroom home in Grootboom Street, Erijaville, Strand with arms waving.
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.
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.
There is a legend that the world rests on the back of a giant tortoise. And he rests on another tortoise, and another, etc. Its tortoises all the way down.
Sea Point now has its own recycling drop off facility too.
The pressure on today's business world is not solely economic. Increasingly environmental issues are playing a role on the global stage.
No matter where I travel across the country, I inevitably find folk lamenting their desperate desire to have their household waste recycled.
Two Western Cape winners of the regional SA Productivity Awards, WastePlan (Pty) Ltd and Fair Cape Dairies (Pty) Ltd have done us proud by also winning the national awards in their respective categories of emerging and corporate sectors.
