Polyco: Making Waste Work

  • Nicole O'Neill

Changing consumer attitudes towards recycling. Polyco is the not-for-profit industry body responsible for the collection and recycling of polyolefin plastic in South Africa (that’s plastic numbers 2, 4 and 5 to us regular folk). Their activities include, amongst others, project support investment for collectors and recyclers; new membership drives; packaging clean-up campaigns; brand owner recycling support projects; and consumer education and awareness campaigns.