The winners of the 2016 Women in Construction Awards, recognising excellence in Africa, were announced this week at Gallagher Convention Centre in Joahnnesburg. The Women in Construction Awards evolved through a need to recognise and celebrate the...
“We are no longer throwing money at problems and are more focused on bringing on board our full capacity and support, using our water entities and boards, to intervene and to support municipalities. In turn, they must invest on building the...
The Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) has reported several big milestones over the past three years. Here are REDISA’s key achievements from 2013 to the end of April 2016: The recycling company has collected 209...
The world is using finite resources at an alarming rate. The solution is not to reduce the amount of material used in products, says Dame Ellen MacArthur. A more circular approach needs to be adopted so that materials can be reclaimed and reused....
Items that would generally be disposed of as waste can be reused multiple times by incorporating circular economy principles A circular economy is a restorative system that extracts the maximum value out of a resource. Reusability and longevity of...
The construction of the 100 MW Kathu Solar Park is set to get underway soon. The solar park, situated in the Northern Cap, is expected to be operational in the second half of 2018. Kathu Solar Park is a greenfield Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)...
A new recycled PET plant by Mpact is bringing South Africa a step closer to closing the loop in bottle-grade recycling. Mpact Polymers was officially unveiled in Wadeville, Germiston this week. The new bottle-to-bottle facility will produce...
A two-day conference on improving industrial waste management in Africa will be the first major event focusing on problems and solutions to improve industrial or hazardous waste management on the continent. The conference taking place in Cape Town...
Access to electricity now stands at 88% of all households, Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson told Parliament during her budget vote speech. Over 6.7 million households have been connected between 1994 and March 2016. “This is remarkable....
