Last month was a momentous one for non-profit organisation (NPO), greenABLE, and Managed Print Service (MPS) company, greenOFFICE, as they jointly scooped the Recycling award at the 2013 Eco-Logic Awards.

Much effort was put into implementing a waste management plan for the Better Together Games, one of the most popular and well attended events on the Western Cape Government calendar.

Why a Recycle Swop Shop should be coming to a school near you.

South African Recycling Industry shows its support for upcoming colloquium with European counterparts.

Over the past year there was a 9.3% increase in plastic recycling in our country.

What is the first step in bringing sustainability into your office?

You’ve got to reduce, reuse and recycle every day. That is the message that was chanted passionately by the Silverton Primary School learners as they received the Aerosol Recycling Initiative (ARI) Gold Can Award at their school in Pretoria.

An exciting line-up of speakers and topics will be presented at next month's plastic recycling colloquium, to be held in Cape Town.

The winners of this year’s Best Recycled Product of the Year Award were announced at a gala dinner in Pretoria recently.

The City of Cape Town, which has been named the best municipality for recycling, has a raft of recycling initiatives in place including the roll-out of community based ‘swop-shops’.

Which beach will you be cleaning up on International Coastal Clean-Up day, which is Saturday, 21 September this year?

In 2012 all of 50 280 tonnes of PET plastic beverage bottles were recycled in our country, saving 75 420 tonnes of carbon emissions and 311 736 cubic metres of landfill space.

The project was launched earlier this month at the Gugas’thebe Arts & Cultural Centre in Langa and aims to encourage entrepreneurship and assist the local community with access to sustainable livelihoods.

Regent Street, London, became a pedestrian-friendly zone in July with the street closing to vehicles to combat high levels of pollution in central London.

Electronic waste, e-waste, refers to electronic devices which have reached the end of their life cycle. This waste can cause serious damage to the environment if not treated in an appropriate way.

To learn from each other's best practices with regards to waste management, recycling, the green economy and packaging initiatives, a global colloquium with leaders in the recycling and waste management industries will take place on 21 November 2013.

Creativity and innovation is the name of the game for those entering for the 2013 Best Recycled Plastic Product of the Year Competition for which the closing date is around the corner.

One thing that I have learnt in the green industry is to not judge a book by its cover – not to make any assumptions about how “green” or not anybody is.

Collection of breadtags and yoghurt tubs made from high impact polystyrene will now be co-ordinated with a click of a button, with collection of expanded polystyrene soon to follow.

The quintessential three R’s of waste management – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – have been given a makeover. ‘Rethink’ has been added to the popular slogan.