Johannesburg residents are now responsible for paying for replacement bins from the City’s Waste Management entity, Pikitup. From February, Pikitup is implementing the Council-approved pricing and tariffs structure relating to levying charges for...
Only 3.3% of South Africa’s households regularly recycle household waste, according to results from a CSIR study conducted in 2010. Another CSIR study also revealed that of the estimated 19 million tonnes of municipal waste generated in this...
The first annual ECA (SA) Presidential Awards programme was a great success. The Awards programme consisted of a two-day event filled with golfing fun, an exciting Awards Banquet to announce the category winners and a valuable industry conference....
(Pictured) Zanele Ledwaba, the Chief of Staff in the office of the mayor shares a moment with the leader of the Chinese Hefei municipal Government Delegation, Kong Xiangyang on Friday, 7 December following a successful bilateral meeting in which...
The University of the Witwatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on one of the world’s intellectual leaders in chemical engineering, Prof. David Glasser, in the Wits Great Hall on 12 December 2012. Glasser was awarded a Doctor of Science in...
The proverbial axe is falling on ‘business as usual` as every industry in South Africa, from mining to manufacturing to retail, is cringing at the thought of rising energy tariffs and the impending implementation of a carbon tax. Stemming the tide...
A video regarding the pollution and recycling solutions in Grahamstown, South Africa.
New to ASSTech’s product line up is the LLB-PTTFM 2000 portable ultrasonic transit time flowmeter, a flow and pressure measuring, data acquisition and transmission system specifically for water networks. Sourced from Italian developer BM...
eThekweni Municipality is tackling the challenge of providing sanitation and water to its rural and peri-urban communities through the provision of urine diversion toilet. The rollout began with a pilot project in uMzinyathiu, a peri-urban area...
At a prestigious ceremony held in Parkview Moyo Restaurant on 28 November 2012 a Water Research Commission (WRC)-funded research project was awarded for its excellence in public participation. The first Southern African Core Values Awards for...
