by Sherwin Naicker, director, Cecor Allied Technologies On 3 June 2013, Cecor Allied Technologies became the first commercial autoclave treatment facility to process non-anatomical health care risk waste (HCRW) in Gauteng. This type of autoclave...
South Africa’s new emission standards will have a significant impact in terms of requiring operators of the Section 21 listed activities to apply for Air Emissions Licences (AEL), according to SRK Consulting’s Durban-based principal Air Quality...
The basics behind the success of the popular hanging gardens at the Moyo restaurants in Cape Town are being studied by agronomy students at Stellenbosch University (SU) who are not only learning how to grow their own vertical aquaponics systems,...
Converting biomass to energy has the potential to unlock economic sustainability. The conversion of biomass into an energy form is one of the oldest technologies known to man. Since the beginning of time man collected wood and other organic...
Interwaste Environmental Solution’s FG Landfill Site in Olifanstfontein, Gauteng, is setting the standard by being the first class B liner landfill in South Africa, pre-empting even the new draft regulations liner requirements for a class B site,...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is engaged in a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project based on landfill gas recovery and flaring at four of its landfills. The latest phase – Phase 3 – involved the expansion of the active LFG...
The first African Marine Debris Summit has highlighted the urgent need for collective action to be taken against the problem of marine debris facing the continent of Africa. “The marine environment has many challenges. Global warming is visible...
The Kraaifontein Integrated Waste Management Facility has not only been very well received by community members, but also continues to be praised for its design and functioning, councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, Cape Town mayoral committee member for...
PETCO, the PET Recycling Company (Pty) Ltd, will be hosting the European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisation (EPRO) for their first General Meeting to take place on African soil in Cape Town on the 20th of November. In order...
