Within an environment currently characterised by significant risks, AECI Much Asphalt is putting its focus firmly on sustainability in response to the challenges faced by the asphalt industry following the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not an option to...
In honour of Clean-Up and Recycle Week 2022, Fibre Circle, the producer responsibility organisation for the paper and paper packaging sector, calls on businesses and consumers to practise better separation at source, and turn “trash into treasure”....
Key water sector stakeholders led by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) gathered to make inputs into the National Water Resource Strategy 3 (NWRS-3). The primary key focus of the NWRS-3 is to ensure equitable and sustainable access to and...
Today, about 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 3.6 billion people lack safely managed sanitation services. The latest World Water Development Report (WWDR) tackle groundwater that has remained under the...
Sanitation systems where the sewer does not go, DEWATS are the sweet spot between waterless on-site sanitation and conventional sewers with centralised wastewater treatment. Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Solution What is DEWATS?...
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) hosted its annual awards ceremony on Thursday, 1 September, celebrating individuals and organisations, as well as its members, who have demonstrated resilience and promoted sustainability...
The SABS warns that some Information Technology (IT) standards are at risk because of inadequate industry participation in the SABS Technical Committees The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has sounded the alarm that some information...
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) is calling on players in the wind sector to work together to deliver more for South Africa through the just energy transition. Under the rallying call of ’Wind Power Spearheading the Energy...
Million Plus, a consumer recycling campaign led by Polyco PRO NPC, is aiming to mobilise more than one million South Africans to commit to recycling their plastic packaging to keep it out of the environment and out of landfill, and instead put it...
With South Africa celebrating Arbor Month in September, it is a good time to appreciate the role that all trees play in greening our cities, as a food source, in providing timber for construction, as fuel and, of course, as paper, packaging, and...
