The Southern African Society for Trenchless Technology (SASTT) is now 21 years old, and with age has come a certain maturity for the society, SASTT honorary director, Joop van Wamelen, tells Chantelle Mattheus. “Over the past year, I have had the...
South Africa’s new emission standards will have a significant impact in terms of requiring operators of the Section 21 listed activities to apply for Air Emissions Licences (AEL), according to SRK Consulting’s Durban-based principal Air Quality...
By Patrick Forbes, professional assistant: Litigation Department at Garlicke & Bousfield The recent publication of the Carbon Tax Policy Paper has once again ignited debate on the issue of a carbon tax across numerous sectors of society. This...
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,...
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...
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...
Presentations from the ReSource Breakfast held at the Killarney Country Club on 15 August 2013. Alex McNamara: Sustainable Energy Solutions: South African Initiatives Topic: Climate change,sustainable energy, and adaption are major challenges for...
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,...
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...
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...
