The partnership will see Corona collect and recycle hard-to-recycle plastics in Gauteng and the Free State.
Ramtsilo, a 100% black female-owned company, will not only facilitate the plastic collection programme, provide specialised sensitisation and training among waste pickers, but will also repurpose these plastics into environmentally-friendly, fire-tested bricks that can be used in households, buildings and roads.
According to the SAB, this initiative falls in line with its sustainability goal which is to have 100% of its products to be in primary packaging that is returnable or made from majority recycled content by 2025.
South African Corona marketing manager Thomas Lawrence said that “supporting a business in the recycling value chain is exactly how SAB and Corona are contributing to creating a circular economy and taking action to keep plastic out of our communities and environment”.