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It is the largest regional waste landfill site and is owned and managed by the eThekwini Municipality's Durban Solid Waste department. The footprint of the active landfill area (or solid waste disposal area) is 116.2 ha. Trees have been planted into 580 ha of the 787 ha buffer zone.
Trashy Bags Africa is a commercial venture in Accra, Ghana, which turns plastic waste into reusable shopping bags, fashion accessories, school supplies, and other products. [1] The company employs about forty Ghanaian workers [2] [3] to collect, clean and stitch plastic trash in the form of sachets that contained water and other beverages.
A bin bag, rubbish bag (British English), garbage bag, bin liner, trash bag (American English) or refuse sack is a disposable receptable for solid waste. These bags are useful to line the insides of waste containers to prevent the insides of the container from becoming coated in waste material.
Wonderbag is a stand-alone, non-electric insulated bag designed to reduce the amount of fuel required in the cooking of food in developing countries. [1] Instead of being placed on a stove for the duration of the cooking period, food is instead heated to a hot enough temperature then transferred to the Wonderbag, which uses the principle of thermal insulation to continue cooking, and keeps ...
The seal of a biodegradable bag in French. In typical parlance, the word biodegradable is distinct in meaning from compostable.While biodegradable simply means an object is capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms, "compostable" in the plastic industry is defined as able to decompose in aerobic environments that are maintained under specific controlled temperature and ...
Duro Bag is committed to sustainability and was the first paper bag manufacturer in North America that produced a paper bag made from 100% Post-consumer Recycled fiber paper. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Duro Bag has a half-century history of reducing and re-using waste at its manufacturing operations by recycling 100% of the Kraft and Bleached paper waste ...
Ecosan concept showing a separation of flow streams, treatment and reuse; 2014 illustration. Ecological sanitation, commonly abbreviated as ecosan (also spelled eco-san or EcoSan), is an approach to sanitation provision which aims to safely reuse excreta in agriculture. [1]
AECI's principal manufacturing sites are located in Johannesburg (mining solutions and specialty chemicals), Sasolburg (specialty chemicals), Durban (specialty chemicals) in South Africa. AECI is a specialty product and services group of companies which claims to provide "value-adding solutions to customers through science, technology and ...