USE-IT is a Non-Profit Organisation that aims to divert waste and create jobs by creating opportunities for waste beneficiation. It partners with businesses to help them better understand their waste production, from raw material inputs, to what eventually ends up in company bins. It then helps them use diverted waste to establish Enterprise Development opportunities. This has included waste upcycling, e-waste recyclers, organics/ composting, and shoe manufacture from leather cut-offs.
Driving plastic recycling through industry support
The South African Plastics Recycling Organisation (SAPRO) is the national association of plastic recycling companies with a mandate to grow the recycling rate for waste plastics. The core of SAPRO's efforts is to 1) improve the quality of materials entering the...
