Author: Mohamed Hassim

By reducing the number of SIM cards distributed each year, South Africa’s telecommunications industry could prevent nearly 190 tonnes of plastic waste annually. That’s the finding of Securi-Tech, a company involved in SIM security and packaging, which estimates that at least 200 million SIM cards, nearly four per adult, are produced and distributed across the country every year. But plastic is just part of the problem. South Africa is awash in SIM cards, many of which are not correctly registered and are not linked to the actual user of the card. This complicates and frustrates law enforcement efforts when tracing…