Jul 5, 2019
The Landfill 2019 Conference & Exhibition will be held at the The River Club in Cape Town, South Africa on 6 and 7 November 2019. Landfill 2019 will seek to bring the Landfill and Alternative Waste Treatment industries together to learn about...
Pick n Pay has launched a ‘nude wall’ with a wide range of package-free fruit and vegetables in 13 stores across South Africa. This is in an effort to deal with plastic waste. The company’s marketing retail executive John Bradshaw...
With increasing numbers of clients looking for zero to waste landfill alternatives, EnviroServ Waste Management has developed a bio-remediation ‘soil hospital’ technology. EnviroServ HazTech Manager, Pieter Joubert and Aloes Landfill Manager, Sue...
DigiYard, conceptualised for an internal Arup ideas competition, will be a digital platform that looks to facilitate the flow of usable construction waste and surplus building material from construction sites to informal settlement upgrading...
The City of Johannesburg’s tariff hikes kicked in from 1 July. The announcement was made during the 2019/2020 financial year budget presentation in May. Water tariffs increase by 9.9%, while electricity tariffs have increased by 13.07%....
Even though 88% of South African households have access to water, the country remains the 39th driest in the world. Furthermore, close to half of the Waste Water Works across the nation are not in a good state, with 80% of them at medium to high...
The Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) is a Professional Body recognized by SAQA servicing the water sector. Part of the mandate of WISA is provide credible accredited training for its members and the sector as a whole. The courses offered...
Pick n Pay (PnP) has signed up as a member of MetPac-SA, a producer responsibility organisation representing the metal packaging recycling industry in South Africa. MetPac-SA CEO Kishan Singh this week applauded PnP’s decision to support the...
KFC is doing their bit for the environment by eliminating plastic straws in all 900 restaurants across the country by July 1. Following the growing zero waste trend, the fast food giant has decided to ban the use of plastic straws in a string of...
