The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) has appointed engineering consultants Royal HaskoningDHV to carry out 2013 Green Drop audit inspections on several water authorities in the Eastern Cape. Buffalo City Municipality, Mthatha DWP, Mahjabeng Local...
Consumers, food retailers and governments can take simple actions to dramatically reduce some 1.3 million tons of food waste every year, according to a new campaign launched today by the United Nations and its partners. Launched by the UN...
The City of Cape Town is in the process of obtaining a permit to conduct an open burn of vegetation at the Zoarvlei Wetland Section of Table Bay Nature Reserve. This burn will take place when weather conditions are favourable between January and...
by Yanna Erasmus The United Nations Environmental Programme, is calling for urgent and sustainable waste management practices across the world. As the standard of living rises, and development and urbanisation take hold, waste may well become one...
The CAN DO! Trekking for Trash duo, Camilla Howard and Michael Baretta, have reached the halfway point of the their seven month, 3000km trek across South Africa’s shoreline picking up litter and educating local communities about the importance of...
By Jack Ward, MD of power provisioning specialist, Powermode Renewable energy will undoubtedly play a key role in South Africa’s eventual transition to a sustainable energy economy, with all its citizens having access to a reliable source of...
Basil Read, the JSE-listed construction and engineering Group, has been awarded the rehabilitation of the National Route 5, Section 4 between Vaalpensspruit and Winburg by SANRAL. The contract value is R279 million and the duration of the project...
Interested parties who would like to comment on the draft national dust control regulations notice as gazetted in December 2012 have until 5 February 2013 to present their written submissions to the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs....
Laura and her nephew Claiborne make a frame from tin cans.
