The city of Cape Town has launched an initiative to provide more compost bins for Cape suburbs. Seven different areas under the Subcouncil 1 will benefit from the new initiative and will assist residents in growing their own food and making better...
Huge sums of money are spent developing world-class geosynthetic materials, but often insufficient care is taken during the installation of these products. Construct 3 Technologies’ unique Geo-Q software provides complete control over the process,...
More than 12 million tonnes of paper and paper packaging have been recovered for recycling in South Africa over the past decade. This, according to RecyclePaperZA, the country’s paper recycling association, has ensured that waste paper is diverted...
Initiatives like the newly launched and game-changing South African (SA) Plastics Pact aims to tackle the plastic pollution problem head on, by keeping plastics ‘in the economy and out of the environment’. Launched on the 30th of...
The Department of Water and Sanitation has expressed concern about the poor condition of municipal infrastructure for water reticulation, which has adverse consequences on the quality of service delivery. The performance of reticulation...
The award-winning Mariannhill Landfill site is facing imminent closure. eThekwini Municipality has terminated some of its operations and will only accept garden waste, cover material and builders’ rubble at the landfill due to the dwindling...
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) wrote to the City of Cape Town to request a meeting to find workable solutions to fix the sewage pollution crisis within the Diep River and Milnerton Lagoon. According to Andrea Korff, Legal Project...
Subsequent to the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe’s, address at the 26th Investing in Africa Mining Indaba, a series of headlines appeared proclaiming that “mining companies can generate own power without...
Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has introduced a 2L returnable bottle made of PET plastic that offers consumers value for money and is also good for the environment. These new returnable bottles can be reused up to 14 times. Thereafter...
