Compliance and enforcement are the biggest challenges facing the medical waste/health-care risk waste industry, Stan Jewaskiewitz, past president of IWMSA, tells Chantelle Mattheus. Fundamentally, the medical waste (health-care risk waste – HCRW)...
A carbon tax will come into effect from 2015, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced in Parliament during the tabling of his Budget Speech on 27 February 2013. “Government proposed to price carbon by way of a carbon tax, at the rate of R120 per...
Introducing Knot’s Dump Solid waste disposal in countries across Africa poses a huge problem. Unfortunately, environmental damage from solid waste is increasing at an alarming rate. To address this issue in its own small landlocked country,...
2012 marked a period of continued achievement for the PET Plastic Recycling Company (PETCO) and its 28 signatories, contributing to the increased recovery and recycling of PET plastic beverage bottles and the diversion of material from landfill....
