South Africa’s waste management landscape is changing, and rather than a sudden change, there is a steady incremental change each year as the country moves towards a more sustainable waste management model. This is according to the latest GreenCape...
Environmental justice organisation Earthlife Africa Johannesburg (ELA) lost its legal bid to halt nuclear waste smelting operations at the Nuclear Energy Corporation’s Pelindaba plant. The ELA argued several points including that the Department of...
Tests have begun at Africa’s first plant that plans to convert plastic waste into commercial synthetic fuel oil. Renewable energy company Alternative Energy Systems, based in Kenya, uses a conversion technology that involves heating the waste under...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) is excited to announce their first training session on the impact of human activities on the environment. Join this Level 1 Accredited Waste Management in Midrand from 15 to 16 March...
Cleaner ways to make and consume plastic were recently addressed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Plastics recyclers have also called on the plastics manufacturing industry to begin producing more eco-friendly plastic materials which have...
Waste management company Interwaste has been instructed to cease all disposal activities at the FG landfill site in Midrand. The Green Scorpions issued the notice following an investigation into the malodour emanating from the landfill site. The...
Wastewater treatment plants could depend less on Eskom by using the biogas formed onsite. This is according to wastewater solutions company WEC Projects. The company explains that methane rich biogas, which is formed as a by-product of sewage...
IMIESA speaks to ERWAT’s managing director, Tumelo Gopane, about the Welgedacht Wastewater Treatment Works extension in Springs and how this ties in with broader capacity expansion plans for the Gauteng region. What were the constraints facing the...
South Africa meets global standards when it comes to and designing hazardous landfills and medical waste treatment facilities. This is according to Eugene Barnard, head of healthcare at medical waste management company Averda. The company acquired...
