Eskom and the CSIR have established a security sub-committee to identify and deal with security risks that are having a significant financial impact on Eskom’s business. The two organisations recently signed a strategic partnership agreement and...
Since 2001, the National Waste Management Strategy (DEA, 2011) has set targets for all municipalities, secondary cities and large towns to initiate separation at source programmes. Such programmes require a collection system that is able to keep...
The North West Department of Local Government and Human Settlements has embarked on search for alternative sanitation technology that will replace the current ventilated improved pit toilets currently being used. Most of the province is on located...
The potential to produce electricity from wind turbines in South Africa is significantly greater and much more widely spread than initially thought, a recent study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) reveals. The joint...
Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor says the South African economy is attracting investments in the research and development space. “The Department of Science and Technology supports government’s efforts to make South Africa a...
In the absence of a formal collection and sorting system for recyclables, waste pickers have provided a valuable, and low cost, solution for moving resources from the service chain to the value chain. In-depth research conducted by the CSIR on the...
A presentation by Dr Paul Nordengen (Manager: Network Asset Management Systems: CSIR) at the Transport Forum special interest group in collaboration with MCLI in Mbombela on 4 February 2016. The theme for the event was: “Transport...
The National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) is an organisation funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) and hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Since the NCPC-SA began operating 12...
Over 500 local and international marine scientists and biologists met up last week in Port Edward in KwaZulu-Natal to share knowledge and experiences on the management and governance of the marine and coastal environment in the Western Indian Ocean...
