Waste materials are actually valuable raw materials

Waste materials are actually raw materials with economic and other value. So highlighted Mota-Engil Environment (part of the Portugal-based multinational Mota-Engil group) chairperson and CEO Emilio Pinheiro in his address to the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) conference, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Monday. (This is the first time that the ISWA conference is being held in Africa.) Managing waste was really an issue of managing resources, he affirmed. For example, his group had worked on projects that had converted construction waste into building materials.