City of Cape Town Deputy Mayor John Nielsen announced that water restrictions in the city will be relaxed to Level 5 from 1 October 2018. This comes after dam levels showed marked improvements following winter rainfall in the city. In addition to...
Inequality is growing. The rich consume much more than the poor and produce much more waste. Trash has become a symbol of our times. But what some people throw away, means money to others and a chance to survive. The amount of waste we generate and...
Recent rains in the Eastern Cape have brought much needed relief to Nelson Mandela Bay and the Gamtoos Valley, where five citrus towns were fast approaching Day Zero. Persistent rains over the weekend in the drought stricken western part of the...
Life Healthcare Group has completed its latest environmental sustainability project with the installation of solar photovoltaic panels at its Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria. This is the third hospital in the Group to have solar panels installed...
C40 Cities, in partnership with London and New York, are set to launch the C40 Divest/Invest Forum. The forum is a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at helping urban leaders make the leap to effective and efficient divestment from fossil fuels and...
In South Africa the volume of recycled plastic material grows annually, with 334 727 tons recycled into raw material last year according to the National Plastics Survey 2017 by Plastics|SA. While plastic recycling efforts have an immediate impact...
On Saturday, 15 September citizens from around the world will engage in a mass coastal cleanup to remove thousands of tons of waste from beaches and waterways as part of the International Coastal Cleanup Day initiative. In response to this the...
For the first time since 2016 Cape Town’s dam levels have improved slightly and passed the 60% mark. Dam levels have improved last week by 1.3% to 60.1% of its storage capacity. The average water consumption for the Cape Town rose from 519 million...
João Ramos has been appointed as AECOM’s Business Development Lead for Civil Infrastructure in East Africa. Ramos is a professional civil engineer, with a Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering from the IST, the Technical University of Lisbon,...
