There are persistent myths around the numbers on plastic items. Some start in childhood, a popular one being the number shows how many times it can be reused before it is poisonous. Some of these myths persist long past childhood because there are...
Arthur Quphe, President of the SA Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession, delivered a masterclass at the council’s 16th annual international research conference with a unique twist on the problems facing quantity surveyors today. A...
Recycling diverts waste from landfill and reduces reliance on virgin materials, but it is only as useful as its downstream impact. For recycling to be effective, it has to create demand for a secondary-goods market as well as ensure that materials...
Launched in 2021, South Africa’s Extended Producer Responsibility system took a then-voluntary approach and turned it mandatory. These regulations have been a key driver of sector growth, building waste management infrastructure, enabling...
Part of my job is connecting disparate social issues to infrastructure to explore the full scope of how infrastructure pushes and pulls on South Africa’s wider socioeconomic issues. As events unfolded in Kempton Park, where the bodies of...
Golden Arrow Buses, a passenger transport, has taken a bullish stance on electrification. They plan to replace all their Cape Town internal combustion engine (ICE) buses with electric ones. Gideon Neethling, company engineer for Golden Arrow Buses,...
South Africa’s catchment management agencies (CMAs) are becoming central to the country’s water sector while they confront intensifying pressure from climate variability, rising demand, ecological degradation, pollution and financial constraints....
Wastewater contains untapped resources that, if reclaimed, could power agriculture, global sanitation, and its own treatment to help meet United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals, according to a review published in Frontiers in Science in...
Bontebok Landfill in the Swellendam municipality has undergone an impressive compliance turnaround. What was once a declining landfill that scored low compliance scores and had airspace concerns is now a compliant and environmentally responsible...
