Tag: plastic
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,...
Recyclers link to tackle Western Cape PET problem
The demand for bottled water in the Western Cape brought on by the water crisis has put a strain on recycling in the region as the local recycling capacity in the...
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Eskom to face severe challenges in replacing older plants
Eskom will face severe challenges in replacing its older electricity plants because traditional financing institutions have indicated they will no longer fund new coal...
