The Drakenstein Municipality in the Western Cape currently has a big waste management problem – they are running out of landfill air space. To help alleviate the pressure placed on landfills in the district, a new waste-to-energy facility is being...
A gap in the market has presented itself to experts in the water and wastewater treatment sectors. With municipalities across the country experiencing challenges with broken and/or ageing water infrastructure, and with only a limited amount of...
Africa’s first large scale waste to gas plant has opened in Athlone near Cape Town. It’s set to usher in a new way of generating renewable energy. The New Horizons plant extracts environmentally friendly high-quality products, from...
The waste-to-energy trend gaining momentum in South Africa is spreading throughout the continent and developing countries around the globe. Last week saw the opening of a new biogas plant in Athlone near Cape Town, and Ethiopia also recently opened...
The City of Johannesburg could soon have control over the operations of City Power, Joburg Water and Pikitup. This was announced by the city’s mayor Herman Mashaba on Sunday. Mashaba said it was challenging for the city to be “responsible and...
A R3,7 billion waste-to-energy project that has been on the cards for several years for Nelson Mandela Bay was recently put on hold by the metro’s mayor, Athol Trollip. Trollip said he required more details about how the project would work and that...
By Frances Ringwood A report published by UN think tank, the UN University, has found that e-waste volumes in East and South-east Asia have rocketed by 63% in the last five years. The main culprit is China’s burgeoning middle class and its hunger...
Jan Labuschagne, CEO of Averda A South African waste management NGO, USE-IT, recently attained international recognition at The Circulars 2017, an event recognising contributions to the circular economy in the private and public sectors, and...
The City of Cape Town is clamping down on residents who have been violating water restrictions in the city. In a report by News24, one person was fined R2,000 for hosing down concrete surfaces while the country is currently battling with the...
