A joint initiative between Old Mutual and FirstRand Bank, the R1.6 billion Portside building is set to not only become a landmark tower in the emerging financial district in the Foreshore area of Cape Town’s central business district, but it also...
The Department of Environmental Affairs, along with Jeffares and Green as the consultants, has launched the National Organic Waste Composting Strategy which will is aimed at all stakeholders who play a role in the management of organic waste in the...
Three South African researchers in the water sector – Dr Inga Jacobs, Craig Sheridan and Dr Heidi Snyman– were recently honoured for their contributions to the sector at the Excellence in Water Research Awards at the CSIR Knowledge Commons in...
An earthquake that killed nine people in Spain in 2011 may have been triggered by decades of pumping water from a nearby natural underground reservoir, suggesting human activities played a role in moving Earth’s crust, scientists reported on...
Some 120 learners from Protea Park in Atlantis and Sophakama Primary School in Dunoon, Milnerton cleaned up Milnerton Beach, filling 60 bags totally 240 kg, with debris and litter during the past weekend. This initiave formed part of National...
At the start of October, Pikitup rolled out its second phase its Separation at Source Project to the Zondi serviced depot areas in Soweto. The project not only encourages residents to recycle their household refuse, which is ordinarily tossed away,...
The Plastics Institute of South Africa (PISA) has announced the winners of the Student Design Competition, held in partnership with POLYCO (the industry association promoting the recycling of polyolefin plastics in South Africa), Plastics|SA,...
Durban and Cape Town residents will have to start looking seriously at drinking recycled water from the local sewage works within the next few years as water supplies are running out and there is not enough time to build big new dams. Gauteng would...
According to Plastics|SA’s third annual survey of the plastics recycling industry in South Africa, the recycling of plastics has demonstrated a year-on-year increase in the total tonnage being converted since the survey in 2009. In 2011 South...
