South Africa’s first multimillion rand biorefinery facility is set to be launched by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, in Durban on Tuesday, 20 March 2018. Funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST),...
With less than a week to go until the inaugural Global Recycling Day event, cities around the world are announcing their plans to celebrate the day. The day, which is an initiative from the Bureau for International Recycling (BIR), encourages the...
Johannesburg Mayor, Herman Mashaba, has instructed Pikitup to look into the feasibility of full time employment for former Jozi@Work beneficiaries. This comes after the mayor held a meeting with representatives of contract workers employed by...
The ROSE Foundation is calling on South African businesses to dispose of used oil responsibly as it fears that water contamination is threatening the country’s already dwindling water resources. While old infrastructure and a backlog in services...
Ryno Erdmann, Group CEO, Aquatico, discusses the importance of laboratory testing and the services Aquatico has to offer. Tell me about Aquatico and the laboratory services you offer the water sector. RE Aquatico is an established environmental...
The contract to provide an emergency desalination plant for the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town was recently awarded to Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) and Osmoflo. According to QFS the project, which will address the...
Refuse removal in the Ekurhuleni city of Kempton Park has been erratic for more than six months according to Alderman André du Plessis, DA shadow MMC for environmental development and waste management. Talking to the Kempton Park express Du...
One hundred and thirty-three Northern Cape youths have kick-started their environmental careers after recently being inducted into the Youth Environmental Services (YES) Northern Cape Programme. The learnership, which is funded by the Department of...
A recent study by Irish-based researchers has confirmed that plastic pollution is reaching deep into the ocean with results showing that over 70% of deep sea fish have ingested plastic. According to Anders Jacobson, co-founder and CEO of Blue, the...
