Mining operations are integral to various industries, providing essential resources for manufacturing and infrastructure development. However, the extraction of valuable metals from ore involves the extensive use of water, resulting in mining...
A Surge in Solar Adoption Prompts Calls for Responsible Recycling Practices In a historic shift, 2023 has witnessed a remarkable surge in South Africa’s embrace of solar energy, with corporations and civil society making unprecedented...
Food waste – a dire consequence of load shedding in an already food insecure country! By Kate Stubbs Loadshedding has led many households, businesses as well as the entire supply chain in the food and catering industry, having to dispose of more...
Public-private sector investment is desperately needed to ensure that South Africa’s municipalities can modernise and acquire waste processing facilities to divert waste from landfill. The City of Johannesburg alone estimates its investment need in...
Globally each day, roughly 1 043 000 tonnes of human waste is produced and more than 300 million people manage their period. This vast amount of human waste, and its safe management, has an economic value. The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF)...
The City of Cape Town is continuing efforts to notify organic-waste generating businesses that they will soon be required to make alternative plans for disposal of this waste type, or face a fine. The most recent awareness efforts reached 128...
Maximum output, minimum waste is a mantra for every manufacturing process. And nearly every manufacturing process uses water and has a waste stream in some form, which could include sludge. Sludge is one of the main waste streams or by products...
In the midst of South Africa’s growing waste management crisis, the call to adopt innovative solutions has never been more urgent. The heart of the nation’s environmental discourse revolves around the imperative need to embrace a...
Retail chain Pick n Pay has unveiled a “zero-waste” supermarket in Cape Town as part of its efforts to diminish waste in its operations. The store will experiment with a net-zero waste approach by redirecting food waste to local...
