The eyes of the world will be focused on the health of our oceans when World Oceans Day is celebrated on Friday, 8 June.
Entries are now open for the third annual “Best Recycled Plastics Product of the Year” Competition.
The plastic recycling industry is developing at a steady pace, as consumers and businesses become more aware of the need to conserve the natural resources and energy involved in the manufacture of packaging and other products.
A big part of our modern deluge of problems is the fact that there simply is no space left for waste. That is what is so great about recycling, especially when it comes to a packaging option as cost-effective and environmentally friendly as PET plastic.
Johannesburg: After Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi banned the manufacturing, importation, exportation and sale of polycarbonate (PC) infant bottles containing of Bisphenol A (BPA), many chemical scare stories, urban myths and internet-rumours started to spread like wildfire.
Plastics|SA's purpose is to:
- Enable a vibrant and sustainable plastics industry in South Africa
- Be valued and respected by local and international industry, customers, suppliers, government, community and employees;
- Promote the use of plastics as the material of choice;
- Develop the skills needed through accredited training programmes;
- Support environmentally responsible actions that benefit industry and society.
Plastics|SA, the umbrella body representing the plastics industry of South Africa, was awarded the 2011 Enviropaedia Award for Recycling at the inaugural Eco-Logic Awards ceremony which took place in Cape Town on Saturday evening in partnership with The Greenest Event expo.
The audited results of this year’s International Coastal Clean-Up Day, which took place on 17 September 2011, show that plastic litter continues to be a problem on South Africa’s beaches.
Spring is in the air and South Africans are starting to emerge from their homes after a long and cold winter.
We don€™t realise how lucky we are in this country.
Plastic is a remarkable material which comes in more than fifty different forms and has almost countless uses.
Robben Island had her beaches swept of junk last Saturday when PETCO, the Plastics Federation and the Overberg community launched a big clean-up initiative.
Want to go into the recycling business? This is one of the fastest growing green businesses areas and SA is emerging as one of the leaders in the field.
I am back in South Africa and more than ready to tell everyone about my experience on the Five Gyres expedition from Walvis Bay to Uruguay.
While you are enjoying a yoghurt snack from a plastic tub at home, there are a group of people embarking on an arduous cruise on our oceans to monitor how plasticly polluted it is.
Plastic bottle caps are the most collected items at beach clean-ups throughout the year, with increased food wrappers, plastic cutlery and drinking straws the other big monsters we need to fight.
The PET recycling company trading as PETCO, Coca-Cola South Africa, Coca-Cola Canners and Collect-a-Can sponsored Madikwe Game Reserve with a baling machine in order to facilitate the recycling of packaging material used in the reserve.
Polystyrene got lumped with €˜bad plastics€™ in the old days before it was recycled in our country.
Retailers and recycling organisations are coming together to help curb the impact of waste products in our country.
Finally we can now purchase sandwiches packed in recycled plastic €“ thumbs up for Woolies!
