Durban and Cape Town residents will have to start looking seriously at drinking recycled water from the local sewage works within the next few years as water supplies are running out and there is not enough time to build big new dams. Gauteng would...
Eskom has declined to comment on a news report that it would ask the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to almost double electricity prices over the next five years. “We are busy finalising our application and will be...
Vela VKE, a part of the SMEC Group, currently forms part of Mokolo Crocodile Consultants (MCC), a joint venture between five consulting engineering firms established to implement the R15 billion Mokolo Crocodile River (West) Water Augmentation...
Left: James Kamau enjoying a ReSource read at his stand. Mfangano Solutions provides options and equipment for recycling, including the baling of scrap tyres. Right: Janette Kruger and Zimasa Velaphi from Collect-a-Can said that the conference...
Frances Saliwa says she “wants to make waste nice”. At 67, she has lived in the Eastern Cape all her life and says she wants to make things. She gets hold of old shoes and revamps them using banana leaves. She also makes bags, shorts, jackets, hats...
Joburg’s transformation into a world-class city begins with presenting a clean and hygienic environment to all the City’s residents and visitors. In this regard, the city’s waste management entity, Pikitup has a crucial role to play and the...
On Tuesday evening, Dierdre Nxumalo-Freeman, new President of the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA), officially opened the Institute’s biannual conference and exhibition, WasteCon. The event is being held in the ICC in East...
According to Plastics|SA’s third annual survey of the plastics recycling industry in South Africa, the recycling of plastics has demonstrated a year-on-year increase in the total tonnage being converted since the survey in 2009. In 2011 South...
History will be made this week when Ekurhuleni launches the first and only solar plant of its kind in the country. The solar power plant produces about 200 kW of electricity through 860 PV (photovoltaic) solar panels on 2 500 m² of land generating...
Polystyrene recycling is becoming a strong focus in South Africa and last week, we reported on an initiative in Pretoria East for kerbside collections of this waste, along with the Polystyrene Packaging Council. Now it seems that chemists in the...
