Recycling today is so much more than collecting material and taking it to a recycler, it requires an understanding of a client’s sustainability goals and how to provide practical assistance to achieve those goals.
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Smart Waste has closed the loop on food waste by taking food waste back to the generators – only in a different form – compost.
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Sustainability is the new business buzzword in recycling and it may seem daunting but in honest truth, it’s all in the mindset.
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We are – without doubt – seeing new recycling trends. Notwithstanding a sluggish economy we are being inundated with clients looking to change their waste management service provider. Waste management, like many other services, has become inefficient over time and clients have become accustomed to accepting mediocre service. Previously clients were prepared to wait until
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Which industry costs US$ 500 billion in value per annum and produces more greenhouse gas in its production than all international flights and maritime trade combined? The answer is the textile industry. We shouldn’t be surprised – but most people are. The clothes we wear do not seem to be such bad polluters and besides
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Billed as the biggest one-day civic action in human history the organizers expect millions of people in 180 countries to participate each year. 19 September was 2020’s World Clean Up Day. It certainly draws attention to our environment and clears mountains of refuse. But is it enough? To be effective in cleaning up the world
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At the end of June the Minister of Environment Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), Ms Barbara Creecy published, for comment, draft regulations for extended producer responsibility. After a long delay and some government mis-steps are we on the right track, at last? The principle of extended producer responsibility forms part of our main waste act. It
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The war on waste continues. We win some battles and are still losing others. While there is much more awareness on the part of most societies there is also a lot of misinformation out there. The outcome of the war still hangs in the balance. Awareness on the part of the public is much greater.
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The debate about the use of plastic rages on. News like the recent report of plastic bags being found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench creates worldwide awareness of the problem caused by plastic. Understandably many people want to ban all plastic immediately. It is necessary to hear the other side of the debate
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After years of being regarded as the poor cousin of waste disposal recycling is becoming the star. It has to do with the adoption of the circular economy. Instead of throwing things away – the waste disposal option, which is based on the linear economy – we are now starting to reuse them. The recycling
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