Water is perhaps one of the most precious natural resources. With rapid urbanisation, the resource is becoming scarce quickly. By Kelly Potter* For organisations and systems that operate in the water industry, there has been the dependency on...
As part of International Coastal Clean-up Day 2018, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages (CCPB), will be hosting a beach clean-up event that will take place on Sunday, 16 September 2018, in Muizenberg, Cape Town. The aim of the event, which ties into...
Much of Europe’s e-waste ends up on dumps in Africa. The social, environmental and health effects are devastating. Source: DW Documentary
September is National Clean-up Month and South Africans nationwide are joining the waste free movement to clean up beaches and rivers. In partnership with Plastics SA for Clean-up and Recycle Week (10 to 15 September), Coca-Cola’s bottling partners...
With only six years of municipal landfill airspace left, the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town are implementing programmes to reduce the volume of waste going to municipal landfills in order to avoid ‘Landfill Zero’. Johannesburg has already...
The 2018 Stockholm Water Prize was awarded to Professors Bruce Rittmann and Mark van Loosdrecht for microbiological research and innovations that have revolutionised water and wastewater treatment. The prize was presented to the pair by H.R.H....
South Africa generates an average of 120 million litres of used lubricant oil in a year. While many workshops may be disposing of their used lubricating oil correctly, this is not always the case for other oil related waste. Used lubricating oil is...
Twenty-three cities have pledged to cut waste sent to landfill and incineration by 50%. This will avoid disposal of at least 87 million tons of waste by 2030 on a path towards zero waste. By signing C40’s Advancing Towards Zero Waste Declaration,...
The tourism and hospitality industry is one of the fastest growing economic sectors globally, which is proving to have a serious, negative impact on the environment. It is becoming increasingly essential that hotels and businesses have...