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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COVID-19 wasn’t all bad. For one thing, it has increased interest in our environment and individuals are starting to pressure corporations to improve their non-financial reporting. Corporations want to comply to keep their shareholders and customers happy but some still struggle to implement ESG. ESG (environment, social and governance) is a refinement of CSR (corporate
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Hazardous material disposal suffers from that familiar South African malady of being brilliant on paper but often lacking in execution. Not all the time but sufficiently to be a concern. Hazardous waste means any waste that contains organic or inorganic elements or compounds that may, owing to the inherent physical, chemical or taxological characteristics of
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The industrywide march to sustainable practices is having an impact on waste reporting. Clients are becoming more demanding in the scope and depth of their reports and we are having to adapt, something we are happy to do. Reporting on the volume of waste being sent to landfill has long been a feature of professional
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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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