The local plastics industry will once again demonstrate its commitment to cleaning up the environment and removing plastics litter from our rivers, streams, oceans and neighbourhoods with it’s annual Clean-up and Recycle SA Week. It is taking...
South Africa’s waste management approach faces numerous challenges, particularly as environmentalists call for traditional waste processing measures to be done away with. Limited resources, population growth and poor infrastructure are increasingly...
The construction industry is grappling with issues pertaining to productivity and meeting project deadlines that have been intensified following the economic recession of 2008-2009. About 2 million construction workers were let go in the United...
A Port Elizabeth artist has created beautiful fashion pieces out of waste that he has collected from the ocean and land in the city. Luke Rudman created more than 190 high-end fashion plastic pieces and has caught the attention of Greenpeace...
One hundred and thirteen waste pickers from 42 towns across all provinces in South Africa convened to celebrated a decade of work since the 2009 launch of South African Waste Pickers Association, a movement of and for all waste pickers working in...
A new study from environmental think tank Green Alliance has shown that bottled water alternatives are not as green as they claim to be. The study examined if alternative forms of packaging – aluminium, glass and cartons – are less harmful to the...
A new eco-friendly toilet – which uses only one to two litres of water per flush – could be an affordable alternative to pit toilets at South African schools. 76 Eaziflush toilets have been installed at nine schools in Lady Frere in the Eastern...
In commemoration of this year’s Mandela Month, the Strategic Water Partners Network (SWPN) joined forces with an array of stakeholders to tidy up the banks of the Hennops River in Gauteng Province. This clean-up programme was under the auspices of...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) together with the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF, formerly the Department of Environmental Affairs) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to commemorate...
