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Agronomy students investigate hanging gardens

The basics behind the success of the popular hanging gardens at the Moyo restaurants in Cape Town are being studied by agronomy students at Stellenbosch University (SU) who are not only learning how to grow their own vertical aquaponics systems,...
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A viable income source for the unemployed

Collect-a-Can’s Cash for Cans initiative safeguards the livelihood of thousands of unemployed South Africans. Zimasa Velaphi, public relations and marketing manager of Collect-a-Can, encourages those that are unemployed and in particular unemployed...

Unlocking conversion potential

Converting biomass to energy has the potential to unlock economic sustainability. The conversion of biomass into an energy form is one of the oldest technologies known to man. Since the beginning of time man collected wood and other organic...
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A landfill in the lead

Interwaste Environmental Solution’s FG Landfill Site in Olifanstfontein, Gauteng, is setting the standard by being the first class B liner landfill in South Africa, pre-empting even the new draft regulations liner requirements for a class B site,...

Keeping it clean

The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is engaged in a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project based on landfill gas recovery and flaring at four of its landfills. The latest phase – Phase 3 – involved the expansion of the active LFG...
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First African Marine Debris Summit

The first African Marine Debris Summit has highlighted the urgent need for collective action to be taken against the problem of marine debris facing the continent of Africa. “The marine environment has many challenges. Global warming is visible...

Kraaifontein delivers on expectations

The Kraaifontein Integrated Waste Management Facility has not only been very well received by community members, but also continues to be praised for its design and functioning, councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, Cape Town mayoral committee member for...

CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards 2013

Celebrating innovation, quality, outstanding workmanship and professionalism, the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards were handed out at a glittering function held at Vodacom World in Midrand, Johannesburg, last night. The awards from Consulting...