South Africa’s waste challenges can seem overwhelming, but there is a history of forward-looking and highly skilled South Africans in the waste sector, and they have been active for some time. The challenges that South Africa is facing are being...
In an effort to reduce plastic pollution from packaging in the food and beverage sector, South Africa is set to launch the Plastic Reboot Project: Circular Solutions for Plastic Pollution in South Africa in Pretoria. The project will transform how...
The petrochemical industry produces some of the most complex and hazardous waste streams in the industrial landscape. Kirsten Kelly talks to Hugh Khumalo – EnviroServ’s national haztech and inland southern commercial manager – about petrochemical...
Working in the waste management sector can feel isolated. The landfill engineers talk to landfill engineers, the recyclers talk to recyclers, and so on. As the president of the IWMSA I get to see the many faces of the industry, and how it all comes...