The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), together with sector role players, has developed guidelines for how municipalities can formally integrate waste pickers. Waste pickers collect between 80% and 90% of all of the post-consumer packaging...
The Department of Environmental Affairs recently hosted a National Waste Pickers Integration Workshop to provide insight into the role of waste pickers in the recycling sector. The workshop also discussed the draft national guidelines on waste...
Used motor lubricant is dirty, hazardous stuff. Yet the collection of used oil in South Africa has provided business success stories for many eco-entrepreneurs who are not only making a living, but who are also making a difference to the...
On 5 April 2019, the Minister of Environmental Affairs gave notice of her intention to require any person who lawfully conducted a hazardous waste management activity on 1 July 2009, when the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008...
Earth Day is celebrated annually on 22 April. Now in its 49th year, Earth Day is one of the largest observances in the world with one billion people in 192 countries participating in activities each year. ‘Protect Our Species’, the theme for this...
Transport Minister Blade Nzimande has announced a two-stage intervention to turn around the crisis-ridden Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) following four failed strategies. The failure of commuter rail transport due to theft, industrial...
The Concrete Institute (TCI) will be lodging an appeal to the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) of South Africa to impose import tariffs on cement imports to protect producers from the mass importation of cheaper cements from...
Social media platform Facebook is working closely with non-profit and research partners to use artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to address large-scale social, health and infrastructure challenges in sub Saharan Africa – ranging from rural...
eThekwini Municipality’s Executive Committee has tabled a report outlining its plan to eradicate more than 40 years of housing backlog. The committee aims to address the backlog by identifying suitable and well-located land to deliver houses,...
