{"id":11192,"date":"2020-10-02T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11192"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:16","slug":"south-africa-sasol-and-aepw-join-forces-against-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/10\/02\/south-africa-sasol-and-aepw-join-forces-against-plastic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Sasol and AEPW Join Forces Against Plastic Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The South African chemical company Sasol has just joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW). Through this network of companies involved in the production of plastics, Sasol wants to contribute to the reduction of environmental pollution caused by plastic waste in South Africa.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) has a new member. This is the South African chemical company Sasol, which has been engaged for several months in a policy aimed at reducing its impact on the environment by relying particularly on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/south-africa-sasol-bidding-for-renewable-energy-power-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>renewable energies<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and the fight against pollution by plastic waste. AEPW, of which it is now a member, was created to bring together companies that manufacture, use, sell, process, collect and recycle plastics. Through its membership of the alliance, Sasol strengthens its determination to contribute to the reduction of environmental pollution by plastic waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWaste management is a global challenge with local solutions, and we are committed to working safely together to reduce waste in our communities,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says Thabiet Booley, Senior Vice President of Sasol\u2019s Base Chemicals Division. The company has already begun working with AEPW through the Altogether Global Clean-up initiative, organised to mark World Clean-up Day on September 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/south-africa-sasol-and-aepw-join-forces-against-plastic-waste\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African chemical company Sasol has just joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW). Through this network of companies involved in the production of plastics, Sasol wants to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}