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...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) has released the provisional programme for WasteCon 2018. This year’s event will include plenary sessions, presentations and parallel sessions including three workshops conducted by...
The finalists in each environmental categories for the 2018 Eco-Logic Awards were selected recently with some major names making an appearance. The awards, which are hosted by the Enviropaedia, are set to take place on World Environment Day in...
MAN Truck & Bus has taken another step forward in the quest to achieve zero-emissions for its customers with the launch of a fully electric van. For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and...
Buhle Waste is a second-generation family business that is 100% black-owned and -managed. The company strives to achieve excellence in all of its business activities in the communities in which it operates. Buhle Waste strives to be an embodiment...
This week SABC Digital News is focusing on water shortages and the drought affecting many provinces of South Africa. Many people are aware of the problems in the Western Cape and Cape Town specifically. Few of us however, unless one is directly...
Concessionaire operator of the N1N4 toll route, Bakwena recently announced that it recorded nine fatalities in December 2017 and three between 1 and 15 January 2018 on the N1N4 toll route. This figure is significantly lower than 2016 when 12...
Despite having its long term credit rating downgraded by two international ratings agencies, Eskom on Wednesday said it remains positive that its funding plan will succeed. Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings (S&P) lowered the state power...
Each piece of waste has the potential to pollute the environment in a different way which is why there is no single suitable waste management approach to address all types of waste. The waste management hierarchy ranks waste management options in...
