CSIR Offering: Evidence-Based Solutions To Plastic Pollution In Africa

The CSIR’s Taahira Goga and Dr Valentina Russo received the South African Journal of Science ’s (SAJS) Outstanding Article Award for their paper on a lifecycle-based evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics industry in South Africa . The paper was co-authored by Prof. H. von Blott...

International Conference on Life Cycle Management in France Senior researcher, Dr Valentina Russo, and researcher, Taahira Goga, from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), participated in one of the fastest-growing forums for the exchange of knowledge on environmental, econom...

Modelling plastic management “Plastic pollution is a symptom of waste mismanagement,” says the report, which used the Breaking the Plastic Waves Pathway Tool to analyse the disposal of plastic pollution. This tool accounts for the three main components of plastic pollution – open burning of plast...