Watercycle Technologies and EWaste Africa Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Sustainable Lithium Recovery from E-waste
Johannesburg, South Africa – EWaste Africa (EWA), a leading electronic and lighting waste management company, and Watercycle Technologies (WT), a UK-based deep tech company specialising in critical minerals recovery, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 27 March 2024. This strategic partnership aims to advance the sustainable recovery of valuable materials, such as lithium, […]
EWaste Africa Named on the 2023 Cleantech 50 to Watch
EWaste Africa, a South African e-waste recycling company, has been named on Cleantech Group’s 2023 Cleantech 50 to Watch.
Ban of all electrical and electronic waste from landfill: 23 August 2021
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (referred to as WEEE or e-waste) is one of the fastest-growing types of waste worldwide. Unfortunately, it is also very hazardous due to the chemicals and components found in it. For this reason, the South African National Environmental Management: Waste Act defined e-waste as hazardous. The dangerous and toxic components […]
Tough choice: do we dispose or recycle CFL light bulbs?
Breaking a light bulb and in particular, the modern energy-saving compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) is a normal occurrence – a lamp either breaks or goes to light bulb recycling because it got burnt and thus the need for a solution to recycle light bulbs. To one person, light bulb disposal is as easy as sweeping […]
Deputy Minister Ms Barbara Thomson’s Keynote address at the opening of Africa’s first light Bulb recycling plant
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