EMIHLE MBANGATHA North End business, Inca Metals, wants you to bring your old appliances, batteries and power tools to their e-waste buy-back centre from October 14, to prevent toxic chemicals contained in these items from ending up in…
Thanks to the annual DNF Waste & Environment Services schools’ recycling programme, 30 schools across the city collectively managed to divert 34.5 tonnes of recyclable waste from the landfill with Lilyfontein Schools bringing in the bulk…
@PackaChing has launched two new recycling buy-back centres in East London to help keep your city clean. They accept plastic, glass, cans and paper and you can earn kilorands in exchange for your recyclables. Find them at St Georges Park,…
Two Australian entrepreneurs are saving trees by making paper out of stones. Kevin Garcia and Jon Tse, of Karst Stone Paper, are producing notebooks made with 80%-90% crushed stone and 10% non-toxic resin, which is used to bind the stone.…
EDIT: A previous version of this article stated that recycled plastic was used in bread bags. This is incorrect and we regret the error. To help combat the growing plastic waste problem in the Buffalo City Municipality, area,…
THE SASKO Siyasizana Daycare Project recently held a prizegiving in Mdantsane, rewarding the 180 participating daycare centres in the area. Siyasizana – a Zulu term which means: “we are helping each other” – was launched in Tembisa,…
ON Monday, the Sweethearts Foundation held their first wheelchair handover in East London, giving 84-year-old Teba Debani a better and more mobile life. Debani is diabetic and had to have his right leg amputated above the knee. The…
THE Sweethearts Foundation is launching in East London and invites everyone to participate in their week-long Mandela Day campaign. The Sweethearts Foundation’s challenge is to collect 67 bottle tops in 67 minutes or as many bottle tops…
Ban plastic shopping bags. That was the radical call this week from Two Oceans Aquarium environmental campaigner Hayley McLellan, made at the African Marine Waste Conference in Port Elizabeth. McLellan, who works at the aquarium in Cape…
A Baysville pensioner who spends her days crocheting supermarket bags into hats, slippers and handbags, thereby keeping plastic away from landfills and wire fences, was a big attraction at the third annual Big Green Expo at Vincent Park…
ON THE weekend of June 3 and 4, Vincent Park will be hosting the third annual Big Green Expo. To find out more about going green in this region, visit the expo for talks and stalls relating to recycling, renewable energy, being water…
GET your old Yellow Pages ready because the Old Telephone Directory Drive is back for another recycling competition. This competition is open to all schools around the Eastern Cape who, by entering and collecting as many old telephone…
