Clean and green environment (CGE) technologies have taken centre stage as a recent report reveals the most urgent environmental issue that needs to be addressed is water scarcity. With rising water scarcity, energy depletion, and global warming...
With weather forecasters predicting a particularly dry summer, concerns over the amount of water stored for KwaZulu-Natal are rising. South African Weather Service prediction research scientist Cobus Olivier says although weather predictions could...
Many service providers specialise either in engineered solutions or chemistry. ImproChem managing director Louis Du Toit explains how his company is capacitated to bring the two disciplines together for improved cost, risk, and environmental...
Electricity and maintenance are two of the highest operational costs in manufacturing. Selecting the right variable-speed drive (VSD) or other soft-start option will save significant time and money, improving resource efficiency, while creating a...
Welcome to episode 4! Gee and Nolo show us a list of everyday items that should not be included into your clear recycling refuse bag. After watching this episode, you’ll be a recycling guru on what can and can’t be recycled. Enjoy!...
South Africa’s efforts to improve the performance of its large cities by making them more inclusive, productive and sustainable received a $9 million boost as the World Bank Group and the Embassy of Switzerland signed a Trust Fund agreement...
A globally active specialty chemicals company is further expanding its supply chain in prosperous markets. In Cordoba, Argentina, a new production facility for mortars and admixtures has opened. The new plant, 700 kilometers northwest of the...
Waste generation and therefore waste management and waste disposal sites is something that is synonymous with all towns in South Africa. A large number of disposal sites in South Africa are operating illegally and without a license. The Department...
Speaking in Pretoria recently,Jeff Radebe Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, said overall growth remained low, and that it was not enough to absorb the high level of new and existing skills into the labour market....
Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Thomson has encouraged the plastics, metals and glass industries to continue with their voluntary efforts to increase recycling. “Furthermore, we need to encourage all South Africans to become...
