On Tuesday, 18 July, Boxmore Packaging and PETCO, the organisation responsible for fulfilling the South African PET plastic industry’s role of Extended Producer Responsibility, partnered to sponsor and handover waste recycling trolleys to five local PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) collectors in the Kosmosdal, Samrand community....
What goes around comes around as a business. Faith Diketane and Zwelibanzi Mnguni grew up in Tembisa, on the East Rand. This is “one of the many townships that have a large number of informal settlements,” says Zwelibanzi. “The lack of infrastructure and service delivery are factors which have aggravated the land and air pollution problem. As kids, we couldn’t enjoy playing outdoors as we were exposed to health and...
In 2016, members of The National Recycling Forum (NRF) focused their efforts on supporting young recycling entrepreneurs with their growing businesses. One such company is Destination Green Recycling led by Faith Diketane and Zwelibanzi Mnguni....
