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...
History will be made this week when Ekurhuleni launches the first and only solar plant of its kind in the country. The solar power plant produces about 200 kW of electricity through 860 PV (photovoltaic) solar panels on 2 500 m² of land generating...
The PwC Global 500 report was recently released and the results of that research indicated that the Global 500 companies of the world were not implementing long-term carbon reduction programmes to the degree where the effects of climate change...
The enforcement of the management of waste disposal is still a problem in South Africa, according to Deputy Water Affairs Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi on Monday. “A lot of progress has been made in terms of waste management since last year, but the...
According to the Compliance Institute Southern Africa, businesses may be surprised to know that even non-industrial businesses have quite a bit of environmental compliance duties, and that environmental penalties are not necessarily limited to the...
Dr Luis Diaz, in his keynote address to the delegates at WasteCon 2012, said that rapid urbanisation is a challenge to efficient waste management. In 2011, the urban population across the globe was around 3.6 billion people while the rural...
When the entire state’s focus is on the Cauvery crisis, unbeknownst to many around 2,000 cusecs of water is being released from the Tungabhadra dam to the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to comply with the pro-rata allocation made by the Krishna Water...
Windhoek ‑ The Economic Commission of Africa (ECA) is urging African governments to set aside at least one percent of their countries’ gross domestic product (GDP) to build enough resources for financing infrastructure development. Setting aside a...
Innovative concrete coring, sawing and scanning expert, QA Coring,has become the first company in South Africa to successfully drill through three concrete bridges with such pinpoint accuracy, that the bridges can now be linked together by...
