Recycling Efforts Grow in South Africa
EAST LONDON – South Africans needed to become more concerned about recycling and to make the effort to buy material produced from recycled material, the deputy minister of environmental affairs Barbara Thomson said on the weekend. Watch a new video about the global impact of plastic, narrated by Jeff Bridges: https://youtu.be/wwDq3WoO7V4 Speaking at an International Coastal […]
EAST LONDON – South Africans needed to become more concerned about recycling and to make the effort to buy material produced from recycled material, the deputy minister of environmental affairs Barbara Thomson said on the weekend.
Watch a new video about the global impact of plastic, narrated by Jeff Bridges:
https://youtu.be/wwDq3WoO7V4
Speaking at an International Coastal Clean-Up Day event in East London, she encouraged the plastics, metals and glass industries to continue with their voluntary efforts to increase recycling.
Last week was also National Clean-up and Recycle Week, according to Brand South Africa’s Play Your Part initiative, which took part in a tour of the Kraaifontein Integrated Waste Management Facility.
Play Your Part quoted Anton Hanekom, the executive director of Plastics SA, as saying that South Africa recycles 22 percent of all its plastic products, with 47 000 informal jobs created through saving waste from landfills.