With recent legislation calling for a paper and packaging industry waste management plan the Polyolefin Recycling Company (Polyco) is urging stakeholders from the sector to give their input. Polyco, a not-for-profit industry body formed by the...
While recycling figures rise and South Africans gain a general understanding of the benefits of recycling, Mpact Recycling managing director, John Hunt, says people may not realise just how much good they are doing. According to the Paper Recycling...
As more business strive to embrace sustainability the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) is calling on companies to demonstrate their commitment to going green both on and off company premises. Jan Palm, President of the...
Environmental crime is estimated at over 200 billion US Dollars. That’s 10 000 times more than the amount spent combating it. The Department of Environmental Affairs is meeting Interpol’s Pollution Crime Working Group and Environmental...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) has released the provisional programme for WasteCon 2018. This year’s event will include plenary sessions, presentations and parallel sessions including three workshops conducted by...
Surface mining industry association, Aspasa, is calling on its members and other industry players to get involved with its process of formulating its own quality management system. The association already has a health and safety, and environmental...
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says audit outcomes for municipalities have continued to regress with irregular and wasteful expenditure ballooning more than 70% for the 2016/17 year. Releasing the audit findings of the country’s 257 municipalities at...
The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has set aside R20 million for the development of a pedestrian bridge over railway tracks in Klipspruit, one of the oldest townships west of Johannesburg. The agency says the development is motivated by the high...
The City of Cape Town’s first temporary desalination plant in Strandfontein is delivering high-quality treated desalinated water into the City’s supply system. Executive Deputy Mayor, Alderman Ian Neilson says the plant is injecting 4.7 million...
The recent amendment to the gazetted Code of Good Practice on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is set to open up new opportunities for the industry. This is the view of Kwakho Mpepho, Education, Training and Transformation Manager at...
