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Recycling Awards
Recycled Product
The City of Cape Town and Mpact Plastic Containers were awarded the
SAPRO Trophy for the Recycled Product of the Year for their Fifty/50 Wheelie
Bin that was entered in the Recycled Content Category. The awards ceremony
was one of the highlights of Clean-Up and Recycle Week SA and National
Recycling Day.
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4 Products in four different categories made it to the finals of this year’s
competition that was hosted by the South African Plastics Recycling
Organisation (SAPRO) and Plastics|SA – the umbrella body of the local
plastics industry. The aim of the competition is to acknowledge products
that are made from recycled materials and to encourage brand owners and
industrial designers to consider recycled plastics as a material of choice.
“We surely had high hopes when we launched our first Recycled Plastic
Product of the Year Awards in 2010. Ambitious and optimistic as we
were at the time, we had no idea just how impactful and prestigious this
SAPRO initiative would become in later years. Each year that we host this competition,
it is proven over and again that talent runs broad and deep in our country and that the
plastics recycling industry has an important role to play in South Africa,” said SAPRO
Chairman, Jaco Breytenbach.
This sentiment was echoed by the Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, Barbara
Thompson, who officiated the opening of the awards by underlining the importance of
partnerships and interaction with stakeholders in the industry. “In 2014, South Africa
managed to recycle 315 600 tons of all plastics products manufactured, back into raw
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