Zimbabwe’s largest polystyrene manufacturer, Planas Trading has ceased operations, laying off about 70 employees after government invoked a ban on kaylite packaging last year. In July last year, ...
Government’s controversial ban on the use of kaylite caught manufacturers and the fast food industry unawares as the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) had recently endorsed their waste management ...
Zimbabwe’s streets, rivers, drains and lakes are awash with discarded, non-recyclable Styrofoam food containers. A problem worsened by the failure of authorities to routinely collect garbage, ...
With the current widespread use in Zimbabwe of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) - popularly known in the country as kaylites -- it is very difficult to believe that they were ever banned. Last year, ...
The ban on expanded polystyrene, commonly known as kaylite, came into effect last week. The Environment Management Agency (EMA) saw it fit to activate Statutory Instrument 84 of 2012, Environmental ...
Zimbabwe's Environmental Management Agency has temporarily lifted its ban on the use of expanded polystyrene (EPS) as food packaging material to allow businesses to clear their stocks. The Agency says ...