Improved maintenance and upgrades has helped the City of Cape Town keep its water demand below the peak level recorded in 2001. Cape Town mayoral committee member for utility services, Ernest Sonnenberg, announced that through careful management,...
The City of Cape Town will become the first South African municipality to establish a pilot plastics-to-oil plant. The City of Cape Town has signed an agreement with a Japanese consortium for the pilot plant’s establishment, with funding coming...
As part of the City of Cape Town’s commitment to being a Caring City, with what has been termed a particular focus on redress, the City’s Utility Services Directorate has over the last few weeks, completed the installation of over 280 full flush...
The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Department has received numerous complaints this rainy season of sewers overflowing on properties across the city. This is as a result of illegal stormwater connections or discharges to the sewerage...
The Kraaifontein Integrated Waste Management Facility has not only been very well received by community members, but also continues to be praised for its design and functioning, councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, Cape Town mayoral committee member for...
Some members of staff of the City of Cape Town’s Solid Waste Management Department staged an illegal sit-in strike yesterday, 23 July 2013, according to Councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Utility Services....
The City of Cape Town has as of the first quarter of this year started rolling out Phase 2 of its home composting research project. “This is in line with ongoing investigations into waste minimisation as part of our commitment to being a caring...
Illegal dumping is a dangerous and costly activity that severely affects residents in all parts of the City of Cape Town, according to a recent statement by the Mayoral Committee Member for Utility Services, City of Cape Town, Councillor Ernest...
Keeping in line with its ongoing investigations into minimising waste in Cape Town, the city’s Utility Services Directorate has started Phase Two of its Home-Composting Research Project. This phase saw 700 home-composting containers being delivered...
