Since launching Africa’s first AxlePower refrigeration trailer in January 2024, Woolworths SA and DP World have grown the fleet to 16 trailers reducing carbon emissions.

Electronic waste (e-waste) remains one of the world’s fastest growing and most hazardous forms of waste, with improper disposal posing significant environmental risks due to the toxic components that are contained in these products, such as lead and mercury.

Despite the recent breakdown in UN-led talks on a global treaty to stem plastic pollution, South Africa is forging ahead with its efforts to continue building a circular economy for post-consumer PET beverage bottles.

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Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has officially rolled out its innovative 2-litre returnable PET bottles, also known as RefPET, in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Soweto.

To mark World Environment Day 2025 on 5 June 2025 and this year’s theme of “Ending Plastic Pollution”, Pick n Pay is celebrating a major environmental milestone: its Reverse Vending Machines (RVM) customer recycling initiative, which has now diverted over 1.1 million plastic and packaging recyclable items from landfill.

The Shoprite Group is the first South African retailer to launch a fully recyclable 7kg potato pocket – solving a complex packaging problem that has challenged the industry for years.

Less than a year after Boxer Superstores proudly completed and handed over the Boxer School Recycling Project to Vukuzenzele Primary School, the initiative has reached an inspiring milestone: the completion of its first self-funded classroom.

Pick n Pay has partnered with Ocean Plastic Technologies, a pioneer in plastic micro recycling, to create wine box holder stands using 4,420 kilograms of reclaimed and recycled tetra juice packs – equivalent to approximately half a million one-litre packs. 

Get cash – in the form of Smart Shopper points - for your (recyclable) trash using Pick n Pay’s in-store reverse vending machines