Goodyear will receive a 2012 Manny Award in the ‘Green Initiative’ category from Inside Business magazine, a bi-monthly Northeast Ohio-based business publication, in recognition of Goodyear’s Zero Waste to Landfill Programme. For the past 15 years,...
The last Conference of Parties (COP17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Durban, South Africa in December 2011 and came out with the Durban Platform of Enhanced Action (DPEA). The next round of talks...
When you don’t clean your plate, microbes feast. And Americans are awfully good at feeding microbes, wasting some 222 million metric tons of food a year. That’s a quarter of our food. Much of that wasted food ends up in garbage dumps,...
Smart grids. Smart metering. If you are the kind of person who is regularly to be found around conferences where utilities and especially power supplies issues are discussed, you will be familiar with these words. In fact, you may even be one of...
South Africa can address its ever-increasing ecological footprint by looking at its commodities holistically, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF SA) said on Tuesday. “We need a more integrated view of our landscapes,” Deon Nel, head of...
The water purification process being demonstrated at the City of San Diego’s Advanced Water Purification Facility uses the multi-barrier approach of consecutive treatment steps — Membrane Filtration, Reverse Osmosis & Ultraviolet...
Communities in Skierlik village near Swartruggens have called for urgent intervention from government to address the sanitation challenges in the area. “The government owes us service delivery. “We can’t use the bucket system...
Despite the fact that the Madibeng Municipality is facing criminal charges for discharging unpurified sewage into the Crocodile River, its water was found acceptable in the 2012 Blue Drop report.Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa announced the...
To meet the drinking water needs of people in Naxal-affected areas, the government is planning to set up 10,000 solar based water systems in 78 districts which have been hit by Left Wing Extremism. “We have just prepared a proposal for 10,000...
A deep-sea water bottling company has agreed to pay $2 million to the Hawaii Department of Health to settle a violation order. Hawaii health officials last year issued an order alleging Koyo USA Corp. adulterated its product with rejected water...
