With recent legislation calling for a paper and packaging industry waste management plan the Polyolefin Recycling Company (Polyco) is urging stakeholders from the sector to give their input. Polyco, a not-for-profit industry body formed by the...
While recycling figures rise and South Africans gain a general understanding of the benefits of recycling, Mpact Recycling managing director, John Hunt, says people may not realise just how much good they are doing. According to the Paper Recycling...
As more business strive to embrace sustainability the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) is calling on companies to demonstrate their commitment to going green both on and off company premises. Jan Palm, President of the...
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says audit outcomes for municipalities have continued to regress with irregular and wasteful expenditure ballooning more than 70% for the 2016/17 year. Releasing the audit findings of the country’s 257 municipalities at...
Minister of Water and Sanitation Gugile Nkwinti says an urgent intervention is need to align project management and planning with the department’s available budget. Speaking at the department’s Budget Vote speech, Nkwinti said realignment was...
Civil society action group Outa says government plans to spend approximately R88 500 to replace a single bucket toilet this year. How is this cost possible? Yamkela Ntola, OUTA’s Portfolio Manager for Water and Environment says overspending by the...
The City of Ekurhuleni is set to undertake a re-blocking project to reconfiguring the current layout of its informal settlements. Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Human Settlements Lesiba Mpya said the main purpose of the re-blocking...
Stakeholder inputs received by Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations are calling for increased oversight of municipal spending. The stakeholders, who included the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the Social Justice Coalition...
The South African plastics industry has hit a new high with a record 2.15 billion PET plastic bottles recycled in 2017. According to national industry body PETCO, this has set a post-consumer recycling rate of 65% which puts the country on par with...
