General Motors South Africa (GMSA) is focused on reducing and eventually eliminating the amount of waste which gets sent to landfill sites over the next 3 years. The company has a dedicated full-time environmental team which is constantly...
The organisers of WWEM 2012, the Water Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring event, have announced that visitor numbers were up by 22% in comparison with 2010. On behalf of the organisers, Marcus Pattison expressed his delight with this success,...
Caption: Ralph Heath from Golder with Evert Kleynhans from Atterbury Property Development.  On Wednesday, 21 November, global environmental engineering consulting firm, Golder Associates, celebrated the turning of the first sod for construction on...
The little person waits quietly in the recycling bin until someone comes by and tries to put a can in the hole… Then he suddenly surprises them!! It’s an original way to collect the deposit!
Caption: The winners of the ECA (SA) Presidential Awards at the first annual Presidential Awards evening. The first annual ECA (SA) Presidential Awards programme was a great success. The Awards programme consisted of a two-day event filled with...
Caption: Roberts International Airport in Liberia which will soon benefit from a major upgrading project initiated by the Royal HaskoningDHV – NACO joint venture. The partnership between Royal HaskoningDHV in South Africa (formerly SSI Engineers...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa, has announced that the next Central Branch training dates have been confirmed for 4 to 6 December 2012 at the Plastics SA, Training Centre, Midrand, Gauteng, with a site visit to the FG landfill...
The Minister of Mineral Resources, Susan Shabangu has inaugurated the PPC Waste Buyback Centre in Diepsloot. The main objective of the R3.1 million centre, focuses strongly on economic development for the community while building a safer, cleaner...
Over 100 international companies, including Shell, Unilever, Hollard Insurance, EDF Energy, Braskem, Statoil, Swiss Re, Ricoh and Skanska, have endorsed the Carbon Price Communiqué, which was presented on19 November to the European Commissioner for...
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on the European Union (EU) to phase out fluorinated greenhouse gases, referred to as F-gases, by 2020. The Agency’s new position paper shows that with simple revisions to the F-Gas Regulation,...
