It is alleged that the City of Cape Town is spending approximately half a million rand a year on maintaining an old landfill site. The dump site, located beneath the popular kite-surfing beach of Witsands between Kommetjie and Scarborough, was used...
Industry has significant concerns surrounding increased government intervention in waste management regulation and the imposition of a waste management charge or tax. The Waste Management Amendment Act of 2014 requires an Act of Parliament to give...
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s officially opened the revamped Kraggakamma Drop-off Site following massive work that has cost the institution more than R4.2 million. First of its kind in the Province, the site will provide a drop-off...
Big events generate a lot of waste. So much so that nine truckloads of plastic waste was collected at this year’s Two Oceans Marathon. The 2016 Two Oceans Marathon attracted almost 30 000 athletes – that’s a lot of water sachets to keep track of,...
The first food-grade recycler of PET in South Africa, Extrupet, has been nominated as a finalist in the WorldStar Sustainability Awards for 2016. Presented by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), the WorldStar Awards are the pre-eminent...
Building on last year’s success, Plastics SA is looking forward to the 2016 International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), set to take place on 17 September, when Ocean Conservancy will officially introduce its mobile data collection app Clean Swell. Clean...
Ultrapipe from DPI Plastics features a multi-layered construction engineered to deliver all the attributes of a world-class sewer pipe while promoting the use of recycled PVC. DPI Plastics introduced its Ultracor multi-layer SANS 1601 sewer pipe to...
A plethora of large-bore water distribution tenders in the market at present is good news for leading fluid conveyance and solutions providers. “The water infrastructure market is definitely growing,” Phillip Bawden, national product manager for...
A decline in the water levels has left South Africa under serious water crisis. The failure of dams to hold water for long periods can prove detrimental as they form a massive part of our reserved water resources. Losing small amounts of water in...
