Executive Director at The Institute of Natural Resources, Duncan Hay joins us the SABC Digital News team from Pietermaritzburg to discuss water waste, from poor water quality to pollution and the state of the infrastructure, there is a great deal...
The eThekwini Municipality has once again scooped the title of the greenest municipality in South Africa. Accepting the award on behalf of the City Mayor Zandile Gumede said the City prioritises environmental issues and building resilient a city....
Although there is a growing trend in reducing the volume of waste produced – as well as the alternative use of waste as a measure to reduce the need for landfill space – municipal landfills will still be required for years to come. However, most...
Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Thomson is set to embark on a clean-up campaign around the streets and beaches of eThekwini ahead of the 8th Greenest Municipality Competition (GMC) to be held in Durban on Tuesday 14 August 2018. As...
Piet Steyn, managing director of Oilkol, remembers a time in the late 1950s and 60s when people used to drag trolleys behind them through the streets collecting waste. Over 60 years later, has all that much changed? These people, who were mostly...
One of South Africa’s largest tyre recyclers is servicing new markets in Australia and Korea thanks to the two steel by-products it has developed from the used truck tyres it recycles. Dr Mehran Zarrebini, head of British investment group PFE...
The South African commercial vehicle market recorded a slight year-on-year increase of 0.1% at the end of July, to reach 14 853 new units sales so far in 2018. Doing the majority of the heavy lifting the Extra Heavy Commercial Vehicle segment,...
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has set its sights on tackling underspending by distressed and dysfunctional municipalities. As part of the department’s implementation of the recovery programme to assist...
Sandton Central, and many of its local businesses, has welcomed the implementation of the City of Johannesburg’s mandatory separation-at-source programme. With the City’s landfills fast running out of space, fast, its voluntary separation-at-source...
