IMIESA met with Executive Manager of ERWAT’s Commercial Business Division, Mikgane Tsotetsi, and explored the strategic advantage of using public-public partnerships to put urgently needed technical and operational skills at the disposal of the...
The South African waste management industry is becoming increasingly prominent in the public space, as civil society demands greater accountability from both industry and government. This consciousness, and conscience, of the importance of ethical...
South African waste container company Otto Container Management will soon undergo a name and branding change to better reflect the company’s proud African heritage. CEO Tumi Sithole reveals some of the company’s exciting future plans. While the...
The recovery of clean energy in the form of methane-containing biogas is starting to receive tremendous attention in South Africa. However, it is unclear whether the transition from standard bio-methane production to waste-based bio-hydrogen...
The City of Cape Town’s new recyclable exchange platform has been upgraded and is already connecting a number of businesses who now make use of each other’s waste products. The Integrated Waste Exchange (IWEX) service, which is now smoother,...
Mpact’s R350-million state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling operation in Wadeville, Germiston, which produces recycled PET (rPET) plastic for food grade packaging, recently announced that its recycling process complies with...
A man was feared dead and two other people were seriously injured in a collision involving two trucks and a car on the M7 Edwin Swales Drive at the N2 on Monday. Rescuecare spokesperson Garrith Jamieson described the scene as “carnage” after the...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa visited India last week to formalise a needs-based knowledge partnership for collaborative research, knowledge exchange, dissemination and capacity building, with the Centre for Science and...
The City of Cape Town has been hard hit by utility infrastructure theft losing R30 million between July and December 2015. The Water and Sanitation Department has been the worst hit thus far, with losses of R17 295 345 incurred through stolen water...
