Inadequate waste disposal and recycling infrastructure is becoming a major concern for governments in Africa as the continent’s urban middle class population expands and more rural people migrate to the cities. New infrastructure projects are...
Frances Ringwood chats to Andrew Fleming, a senior researcher for the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) to find out what Cape Town is doing in its aims to achieve ‘zero waste to landfill’. Comparing one South Africa city’s waste...
Recent legislation promulgated in the United States has put caps in Massachusetts limiting the amount of food that goes to landfill. In South Africa and many other developing countries around the world no such cap exists, although these countries...
In recent years, the South African government has passed a series of laws which are fundamentally changing the landscape of the waste and recycling industry. These laws – the National Environmental Management: Waste Act and its amendments – have...
Petco’s international colloquium held in Cape Town recently was instrumental in establishing global partnerships in the recycling sector. “There is no Planet B. We are all a part of the global market and live on a planet with finite resources. We...
Growing prosperity and urbanisation could double the volume of municipal solid waste annually by 2025, challenging environmental and public health management in the world’s cities, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute...
The Picture of Transformation 2040 Report examines the drivers and blockers of transformation in South African society and provides a hypothesis of what 2040 could look like. Siemens South Africa interviewed hundreds of private and public sector...
Generating energy from waste is a concept that is finally gaining traction in South Africa. SRK Consulting was appointed by Bio2Watt Energy Holdings (BEH) to be the independent environmental consultants to undertake the requisite environmental...
This Mandela Day, Polyco will be sending out 2700 care packages to waste reclaimers at its Packa-Ching buy-back centres and its enterprise development projects located across the country. Waste reclaimers play a critical role within South Africa’s...
