Join us in congratulating two of our Durban team drivers for their hard work, dedication and loyalty on achieving their awards for 10-year long service and Best Driver Performance respectively. December, on the left in the group photos, is our LDV driver and celebrated 10 years with Oricol. Oyame, our ROLON driver, on the right,Read more
Press release: Oricol Environmental Services, an industry leader in environmental services, waste management, waste treatment and recycling, has announced the official opening of its new resource recovery facility in Cato Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal. The facility, which has been certified to the prestigious international standard ISO 14001-2015 (environment) certification, will be unveiled at a ceremony on 14Read more
Oricol Environmental Services has coordinated the secure destruction of over 55 000 illegal DVDs and CDs that were seized from locations across KwaZulu-Natal. This follows raids conducted by the Film and Publication Board’s (FPB) compliance monitoring team in partnership with the SA Police Services and Metro Police in Durban, Ladysmith, Port Shepstone, Pinetown, Pietermaritzburg, oThongathi,Read more
As a responsible corporate citizen, Oricol Environmental Services is always looking for ways to help keep the environment clean and free of waste. In the wake of the massive storm which swept through Durban last month, we partnered with the Durban Partnership Against Plastic Pollution (DPaPP) to help fund the clean-up of the plastic wasteRead more
Oricol Environmental Services has been included in the list of speakers for the Institute of Waste Management South Africa’s Eastern Cape regional conference. The Oricol delegation will deliver a presentation on new developments and solutions for diverting waste from landfills, notably, wastes to be used as alternative fuels for cement kilns. The conference, scheduled toRead more
Press Release: InterCement South Africa (also known as NPC) has entered into an agreement with Oricol Environmental Services to co-process liquid and sludge waste in its cement kilns near Port Shepstone in KwaZulu-Natal. This involves the recovery of energy and minerals from the waste whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel consumption, raw material consumptionRead more
Ecollaboration and sustainability targets are transforming how coffee is sourced and produced worldwide and Nespresso is making headway into becoming an industry leader that is looking full circle at its impacts and involving its consumers in its ambitious recycling initiatives; changing coffee culture, one cup at a time. Melissa Baird reports.Read more
Based on the concept of the LIV Village that was founded by Tich and Joan Smith in KwaZulu-Natal in 2001, the new 20,850m² Village of Hope, nearing completion in Kosmos in the North West Province, is being built entirely from a new building and construction method that incorporates recycled polystyrene. There are over 5-million orphanedRead more
Oricol Durban was proud to be awarded the NRCS contract to ensure that millions of Rands worth of non-compliant goods underwent secure shredding and safe destruction. During the shredding and destruction process, the component parts of the goods are sorted and shredded separately, for example metal parts are shredded separately from plastic parts, to ensureRead more
We are proud to have partnered with Nespresso on their Nespresso capsule recycling project. All Nespresso capsules are fully recyclable at Oricol’s recycling facility in Johannesburg using a customised packaging separation machine developed by Nespresso in line with its global Ecolaboration standards. This specialised machine is able to separate the aluminium from the spent coffeeRead more
