Plastics
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Togo’s Rôbalôtô wins Top Francophone Africa prize for community-based plastic recycling model
Rôbalôtô’s approach treats waste as a local economic resource and engages households, schools and young people in sorting and recycling.
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Delhi enforces strict US$55.31 penalty on open waste, plastic burning as pollution crisis deepens
The order prohibits burning of garbage, leaves, waste plastic among others.
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Kenya launches plastics reform hub to boost accountability and strengthen global negotiating power
The hub will track plastics flows, recycling volumes, recovery rates and investment trends.
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Kenya’s Hidden Recyclers: Why Informal Waste Pickers Deserve a Seat at the Circular Economy Table
The world now produces more than two billion tonnes of solid waste each year, according to the World Bank’s What a Waste 2.0 study.
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Kisumu County moves to strengthen waste management with new bill
The city geerates 400k+ metric tonnes/month, overwhelming current collection and disposal, especially in slums.
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South Africa launches ambitious ‘Plastic Reboot Project’ to curb packaging waste
The country recycles about 10-14% of plastic waste collected.
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Polyco’s Packa-Ching initiative pays out US$2.94M, diverting waste from landfills
Polyco operates 48 Packa-Ching buy-back centres.
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South Africa turns to innovation to curb single-use plastic pollution
Through CSIR, South Africa is fostering the development of sustainable alternatives to plastics.
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Fibre Circle colloquium calls for stronger partnerships to boost South Africa’s circular paper economy
South Africa produced approximately 2.45 million tonnes of paper and paper packaging yearly.
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Carbios, Wankai partner on major PET biorecycling expansion in Asia
The plant will have a processing capacity of 50,000 metric tonnes of PET waste per year.