State and private hospitals in the capital will soon be provided with a modern Health Care Risk Waste (HCRW) treatment facility to cater for medical waste. Public Participation Consultant of Matrix Consulting Services, Chris Ailonga told Nampa on...
Turning worm poop into fertiliser was TerraCycle’s first big idea. Then they transformed discarded drink containers into consumer bling, which made them a world-recognised leader in this hot, new trend of ‘upcycling’. Upcycling is the...
A new, far-reaching report on the state of municipal solid waste around the world predicts a sharp rise in the amount of waste generated by urban residents between now and 2025. The report estimates the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) will...
Figures indicate that US health care facilities contributed 8% of total greenhouse gas emissions and disposed of more than 4 billion pounds of waste – making the sector the second largest producer of landfill waste after the food industry. In...
In his City of Tshwane (CoT) 2012 budget speech yesterday, Executive Mayor, Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, announced the proposed tariff increases on waste, electricity, sanitation, water and property rates for the city. The tariff for solid...
Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has said the conventional practice of collecting waste and disposing them at a dumping site was not the best for the African continent, and that the adoption...
The individual largely responsible for developing the revolutionary Nereda® aerobic granular sludge wastewater treatment technology, Professor Mark van Loosdrecht from the University of Delft in The Netherlands, is to receive the Lee Kuan Yew Water...
The vast majority of companies today are unaware that new regulations governing the treatment of sanitary waste are making their way through the legislative process and are on their way to becoming law. That’s according to leading health and...
Goodyear will receive a 2012 Manny Award in the ‘Green Initiative’ category from Inside Business magazine, a bi-monthly Northeast Ohio-based business publication, in recognition of Goodyear’s Zero Waste to Landfill Programme. For the past 15 years,...
