Tag: plastic
KFC to remove plastic straws from 900 restaurants by 1 July
KFC South Africa has officially announced the removal of plastic straws in over 900 restaurants across South Africa, helping to eliminate 60 million plastic straws a year.
The announcement was made at...
South Africa’s largest malls are banning forbidding plastic bags
Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) – with a property portfolio including Sandton City, Eastgate and Melrose Arch – has announced that it will appoint a ‘no plastic shopping bags’ policy across its...
Plastic brick invention to launch in Cape Town
A new invention created by Donald Thompson, the CEO of The Center of Regenerative Design and Collaboration (CRDC) can turn any plastic (clean or dirty) into sustainable building materials and is...
First plastic road paves the way for SA
Jeffreys Bay will be paving the way for recycling in the country, literally, as it prepares to pilot the first plastic road ever constructed in South Africa in an attempt to...
South Africa is looking at introducing a national plastic straw ban
The Department of Environmental Affairs is currently in talks with the industry bodies to phase out or completely ban plastic products like straws and microbeads in South Africa.
According to Mark Gordon,...
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Stainless steels in the water industry – cost and quality benefits
This information is part of a four-hour presentation STAINLESS STEELS IN THE WATER INDUSTRY, put together by NDE’s technical team and approved by Consulting...
