Corporate Social Responsibility (CSI)

The Draft National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) 2026, gazetted in December 2025 and now past its public comment phase, marks a turning point. For the first time in South Africa’s regulatory history, organic waste has been formally designated a priority waste stream. For businesses generating food and organic waste, this signals the end of “business […]

Think about the total scale of food and organic material passing through retail facilities. While food loss and waste should be reduced, there are volumes of food waste that are inevitable, whether due to spoilage, damaged packaging, cold chain failure, or product sell-by dates. Yet, when we see this waste purely as a disposal requirement

The theme for Mandela day
2022 is focused on food and nutrition, specifically on the importance of community and backyard
gardens, supporting fruit and indigenous tree planting, and creating awareness of the intersections
between food security and climate change.

There has always been a great deal of attention directed towards social issues, such as investing in schools and local supporting charities. However, realising that social and environmental issues are closely connected, more attention has been given to environmental challenges, especially waste management.

Having a corporate social investment (CSI) drive is high on the agenda for most medium to large companies nowadays. Investing in an environmental or social upliftment initiative is embedded in a typical company sustainability strategy. While investing in a cause outside of a company is always welcomed by stakeholders, looking at addressing the environmental impacts

#EarthHour 2021 Using your voice for nature This Saturday, 27 March 2021 at 10:30 pm citizens around the world will be switching off their lights for an hour, putting a sudden halt to our intensive power demand, that puts pressure on mother nature. It is Earth Hour, one of the longest established environmental campaigns aimed

Our top ten composting tips for your office At BiobiN South Africa composting is our business. Why not make it a part of your business as well? When done correctly, compost returns a huge amount of value to our soil. Here are our top ten tips for maintaining a perfect compost unit for your office:

What? Did Peppa Pig just teach our kids how to compost? Parents, you know the drill; need a break from your parenting duties, need to catch up on cleaning around the house? Put on an episode of Peppa Pig and your kids are sure to be glued to the screen while you catch up on

Greening your office: steps you need to know At BiobiN South Africa our goal is to help companies and office spaces reduce their environmental impacts by offering a large-scale, on-site food waste management system. The end goal is to return food waste back to the earth in a valuable way. Along with composting, every company