As major retailers and brand owners begin to feel the pressure to be more environmentally-conscious, one of the country’s leading food packaging producers has become the first in the PET thermoform plastics sector to join voluntary national...
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is calling on the South African Human Rights Commission to further investigate the Sedibeng Regional Sanitation Scheme. The organisation made a written submission to the SAHRC’s inquiry into the pollution...
Modern Water has announced its collaboration agreement with WEC Projects of Johannesburg to promote its innovative and proprietary All-Membrane Brine Concentration (AMBC) technology throughout Africa. Speaking for WEC Projects, who are a leading...
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has welcomed the news of an investigation into irregular expenditure at the Department of Water and Sanitation and says it will continue to share whatever information it can to ensure that the department’s...
The Western Cape is set become the green technology hub of South Africa with launch the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) this week. Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says the 124.5-hectare area has been designated for the manufacturing...
By Garyn Rapson, Partner at Webber Wentzel Last week the Minister of Finance introduced the revised Carbon Tax Bill (Bill) to Parliament. The Bill takes into account feedback received during the Parliamentary hearings on the December 2017 draft...
Plastics|SA has welcomed Mxolisi Khutama as the new Chairman for 2019 at its Annual General Meeting that took place in Midrand recently. Khutama (BSc Eng, PGDMM, PGDBM) will be replacing Bernhard Mahl as Chairman of the Board, although Bernhard...
Waste Management Company EnviroServ has spent more than R3 million this year helping 73 unemployed youth around the country enter the working world by sponsoring their studies. According to Neville Moopanar, EnviroServ group training manager, the...
The South African waste recovery market is set for a major paradigm shift following the unveiling of the first world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine. The bio-brick, which is the handy work of researchers at the University of Cape Town, is...
