Infrastructure News Round Up brings you all the latest news making headlines in infrastructure, water and sanitation and waste management, in just 90 seconds. In this weeks installment: Latest figures show growth in plastics recycling industry...
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has released global aluminium recycling data. According to figures from the IAI, recycling just one aluminium can conserves enough energy to recharge up to 20 mobile phones, while global aluminium...
According to WWF, 10 million tonnes of food ends up as waste in South Africa, which is about a third of the 31 million tonnes produced annually in the country. Of this wasted food, about 90% is disposed of to landfills, where it leads to the...
The Portfolio Committee on Environment, Forestry and Fisheries heard that an outright ban on plastic bags would have far-reaching negative implications for employment at a time when the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has caused huge...