Around 200 leaders from business, national and local government, NGOs, academia and media, and top local influencers including Graça Machel, gathered recently for the Unilever Collective Action Business Breakfast to discuss how implementation of...
The difference between a circular economy and a recycling economy, and why we should care By Hermann Erdman, CEO of REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa) Our dominant linear ‘take-make-consume-dispose’ economy...
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa will today, 23 June, launch the Working on Waste (WoW) programme in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The WoW programme seeks to address the problem of increased volumes of waste and the backlog in the...
South Africa’s cities are inefficient and resource intensive and need to develop sustainable growth paths. This is a key message in the 2016 State of the Cities report. The report, launched today presents a five-year perspective on the performance...
The Draft Regulations on the Carbon Offset have been published for public comment and further consultation. This follows on the publication of the Carbon Offsets Paper in 2014 and the draft Carbon Tax Bill in November 2015. The carbon offset...
Wastewater beats water, sludge beats wastewater, reuse beats desalination, industrial beats municipal, North America beats Europe, and India beats China in terms of market growth rates. This is according to a new report by Global Water Intelligence...
Work will soon get underway at the R14 billion Vaal Gamagara Water Supply Scheme in the Northern Cape. Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane is expected to launch the major water project which includes the refurbishment of the existing...
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) launched the new cycle of the Working for the Coast (Wftc) project during the World Oceans Day celebrations in Durban on 17 June. The new Working for the Coast project cycle will run for two years and...
R350 million has been allocated for infrastructure projects in the Voortrekker Road Corridor (VRC) in the 2016/17 financial year. This forms part of the City of Cape Town’s ongoing efforts to revitalise this substantial area. According to the...
