Smart metering company Itron is developing a first-of-its kind programs in energy, water, waste and air to conserve resources and reduce operating costs. Itron energy and water technology is helping cities the world over meet their sustainability...
Producing electricity from urban solid waste could provide energy for up to 40 million African households in 2025, according to a study co-authored by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). In a report published in Renewable and...
The two week long strike by Pikitup staff is finally over following an intervention by the Gauteng Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). According to a statement by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU)...
The City of Johannesburg’s waste management arm, Pikitup, is encouraging urbanites to reduce, reuse and recycle waste for a clear city. Source: Pikitup Source...
At FTE Insight we want to support PETCO in educating consumers and strive to reduce the amount of post-consumer PET plastics ending up at landfill sites. We realise that one of PETCO’s biggest challenges is to develop sustainable markets for...
South African Vinyls Association (SAVA) Chairman Dr Claus Maurer said today at the Vinyl SA 2014 conference in Sandton, Gauteng, “SAVA’s product stewardship programme aims to reduce vinyl to landfill to 0% by the year 2030.” Other aims of the...
The Paper Recycling Association of South Africa is calling on South Africans to give the country a spring clean during the 2014 Clean-Up SA and Recycle Week from 15 to 19 September, on National Recycling Day on 19 September and the 29th...
In September, waste could help develop communities through entrepreneurship, advance education, support local talent through performing arts and conserve the environment. In celebration of Clean-Up South Africa Week and Recycling...
An illegal medical waste storage facility has been uncovered in Bloemfontein. Two individuals, including a prominent pathologist, have been arrested in connection. The medical waste found at the site ranges from anatomical to pharmaceutical waste...
