1.6-Million people die each year of air pollution in China. The country’s smog levels pose a major threat to public health to the extent that now, even children are suffering from lung cancer. These conditions have driven Dutch designer and...
An electronic waste recycling start-up, based in the Propella Business Incubator in the Eastern Cape, aims to be one of the first companies on the continent to fully recycle electronic waste (e-waste). Propella is a partnership between the Nelson...
Early on the morning of June 24, the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni, Mondli Gungubele, together with the City’s senior officials spread across all informal settlements around the City to keep them clean. The initiative was part of the seventh...
Since 2001, the National Waste Management Strategy (DEA, 2011) has set targets for all municipalities, secondary cities and large towns to initiate separation at source programmes. Such programmes require a collection system that is able to keep...
