Twizza builds a heritage to ensure a future
Twizza also implemented innovations within their plants to cut down on their impact on the environment
Part of building a heritage is ensuring there is a future to leave a legacy for Twizza, a premier South African beverage brand and responsible corporate citizen has put measures in place to ensure they do just that.
One of these measures is being committed to a policy of “reduce, reuse and recycle”. In living up to this commitment, Twizza is a member of Petco, a South African recycling company, which is an organisation driven and financed by the plastic packaging industry to provide a solution for post-consumer PET plastic.
As recycling a single ton of plastic bottles saves one and a half tons of carbon versus landfilling or incineration, it is clear for Twizza that investing in recycling initiatives can have a significant impact on the environment, people and economy.
“Being a voluntary member of the PET Recycling Company sees Twizza pay a levy on every ton of PET that is converted in our production facilities,” said Lisle Clark, CEO.
Twizza is proud to be part of an organisation that has helped ensure over 90 000 tons of PET is put back into the production chain as bottles and other products. Their involvement means a large amount of PET doesn’t land up in landfill sites and has a positive effect on SA’s GDP.
“Our voluntary fee is used in part to pay Petco’s recycling partners. These partners purchase the used PET from collectors who are often the men and women you see on the street removing the bottles from wheelie bins on rubbish collection days.”
In addition to recycling Petco, Twizza also implemented innovations within their plants to cut down on their impact on the environment.
Their Queenstown plant is home to their solar power initiative. Here they have installed 2 700 solar panels covering 5 500m² generating one and a half million KWH annually. Twizza also harnesses the heat naturally generated from their plants to dissolve the sugar needed for the beverages, making their operations 25 per cent more power efficient.
“However, recycling is not only about what we do as a company, but what we do as individuals as well. It is important that we as South Africans learn to recycle as much as possible and in that way ensure our heritage,” said Clark.
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