What happens after you flush the toilet is becoming a big deal. In a new article, published in the science journal Nature, researchers propose a paradigm-shifting change in the treatment of wastewater, a shift they say could have a dramatic global...
Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations — 25 to 50 years on average — leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless. Now, a University of Florida (UF) researcher...
By Hermann Erdmann, CEO at REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa) Three billion people will join the global consumer class over the next two decades, accelerating the degradation of natural resources and escalating...
On November 17 this year, South Africa’s Minister of the Department of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, addressed international officials at the 2nd INTERPOL-UNEP Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference in Singapore. “I address this...