Let’s Talk About Packaging and EEE
The packaging the Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) industries use, its environmental impact, and how to manage it more responsibly.
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Towards a Sustainable Future
Sustainable waste management: barriers to recycling in South Africa and how to overcome them with green design, EPR, and the right to repair.
What is Lighting Waste?
Several life cycle impact assessments show that lighting products have a substantial environmental impact when they become lighting waste.
Copper and Ferrous Waste and Scrap Metal Export Legislation
Measures to restrict and regulate trade in ferrous and non-ferrous metals waste, scrap and semi-finished ferrous and non-ferrous metal products.
Essential Climate Science Insights for 2022 – eWASA
Researchers stress that only through ambitious mitigation efforts and systemic transformation, can we avoid facing widespread limits to adaptation, and increased losses and damages
Toxic Aircraft Carrier Drifting After Weeks at Sea – eWASA
Aircraft carrier drifting at the sea after it was refused port access at the Port of Suape, Brazil.
Turkey Demands New Survey of Massive Toxic Warship – eWASA
IBAMA has responded to the Turkish request by saying the ship had already left Brazil so therefore it was not possible to fulfil the request
Policy Proposals on Measures to Address Scrap Metal Theft
The dtic published draft proposals to address widespread theft of copper cable and other forms of metal from public infrastructure.
eWASA Appoints Packaging Executive for Section 18 EPR
The e-Waste Association of South Africa (eWASA) is proud to announce the appointment of Adri Spangenberg as Packaging Executive, with effect from 1 July 2022. “In order for us to be compliant with the National Environmental Management: Waste Act and the Industry Waste Management Plan (IWMP) whereby manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and distributors of electrical and …
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Environmental Groups Say New Plastic Trade Rules are Ignored
Basel Action Network (BAN) and the Break Free from Plastic movement (BFFP) urge government to fully enforce the Basel Convention.