PETCO is always interested in assessing how we can support informal waste collectors and wastepreneurs, whether it be infrastructure and equipment or training and development. Our landfills would be in an even worse predicament without their efforts. Over the years, they’ve also made a marked impact on South Africa’s recycling [...]
Bloemfontein’s Fichardt Park Neighbourhood Association is making big strides with its household separation-at-source initiative, with community members, and even residents in other neighbourhoods, supporting it. On the second and last Saturday of every month, an average of 74 households bring their recyclables – including e-waste – to the local recycling [...]
PETCO friend Regenize recently opened two new recycling hubs in just 44 days, enabling them to provide free recycling services to a total of five communities in the Western Cape and reward locals for their recycling efforts. As they recycle, residents receive Remali credit, which they can use towards goodies [...]
PETCO friend Regenize recently opened two new recycling hubs in just 44 days, enabling them to provide free recycling services to a total of five communities in the Western Cape and reward locals for their recycling efforts. As they recycle, residents receive Remali credit, which they can use towards goodies [...]
NINE individuals and organisations have been recognised for their innovative and impactful work in recycling, an expanding industry that is creating employment while cleaning up urban and rural landscapes. The sector is attracting a growing number of “wastepreneurs” – including waste pickers and buy-back centre entrepreneurs – who play a [...]
STATISTICS from South Africa’s longest-standing plastics producer responsibility organisation indicate that the country’s PET plastic recycling rates are recovering after the lockdown regulations resulting from to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to figures released at the PET Recycling Company’s (PETCO) annual general meeting in June, 2.1 billion PET bottles were diverted [...]
An innovative pilot project is streamlining the buying and selling of recyclable materials. In doing so, it is providing important, previously unavailable, insights into South Africa’s informal recycling sector. AN innovative pilot project being trialled at recycling buy-back centres across South Africa is yielding positive results just over a year [...]
As companies navigate the new mandatory extended producer responsibility (EPR) landscape, a leading recycler in the plastics value chain has revealed the unexpected ease in managing its new reporting and compliance requirements as a producer. One of the biggest recyclers of PET plastic bottles on the African continent, Extrupet has [...]
Meet Jerry – one of the waste pickers finding recycling gold on the streets of Jeppestown, Johannesburg. Jerry has been collecting recyclable materials and selling them to local buy-back centres for the past three years. This hardworking collector says it’s not always an easy way to make money but it [...]
With so much focus now on plastic recycling, it’s interesting to learn more about the processes involved, especially as technology continues to refine the approaches taken. Firstly, it’s worth noting that the ‘obvious’ type of plastic recycling that we think of – diverting consumer waste from landfill – is just [...]