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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When asked where do the chicken pieces come from most people will point to a supermarket shelf. Very few consider the steps beforehand, hatching the chick, growing and slaughtering it. Then getting it weighed, cut into pieces, packed and put on the shelf. Even fewer people think about what happens when the chicken passes its
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The term “disruptor” will very soon displace “passion” as the most overused term in business today. We all know what it means to be passionate about our businesses – boring. Now we aspire to be disruptors. “Disrupt before you are disrupted” is the call. At Smart Waste we are so busy innovating in recycling that
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Recycling organic waste is surprisingly easy – recycling non organic items is a whole lot harder. Which just goes to show how complicated we have made our stuff. Organic waste can now be composted in a windrow or anaerobic digester. It can also be used to produce energy in a number of ways and converted
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Orasa is now officially in existence. At an event held at Hotel Verde recently Orasa was formally launched to the organics waste industry, industry players and the public in general. With the first organics ban due to come into effect in 2022 it is just in time to build capacity in the organics industry. Hotel
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Organic waste is set to be the next big waste stream to be attacked. In its drive to clean up the environment the South African government has targeted organic waste. In addition to agricultural and garden waste this includes abattoir waste, sewerage waste and food waste amongst others. Organic waste is bad because it decomposes
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A lot of us think that fresh vegetables come in little Styrofoam trays and packets from the supermarket, with neatly embossed recycling icons. What we don’t see is how they are produced and there are some things the producers don’t want us to see. Take commercial farming; at most stages of growing a crop the
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Food waste may not be sexy but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it. Mid-morning chat shows openly discuss sex and yet it seems society is reluctant to talk about food waste. Whether it stems from the childhood admonitions to finish the food on our plate, or the shame of wasting food amidst so
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