In 2012 WESSA Eco-Schools celebrated a ‘Diamond Decade’ of inspiring sustainable development in schools with a launch of an exciting new competition offering prizes to the total value of over R120 000. The competition, called the WESSA Eco-Schools...
Eskom is a step closer towards achieving its goal of producing cleaner energy. The National Energy Regulator has given the power giant the go-ahead to build a wind farm in the Western Cape. It’s Eskom’s first large-scale, renewable...
Two decommissioned shipping containers were recently converted into Grade R classrooms and handed to the Agter-Witzenberg farm community outside Ceres in the Western Cape. This forms part of an initiative to support early childhood education in...
The single largest electricity consumer in the Western Cape saved R90 million Rand in one year by participating in an Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvement Project. The upcoming African Utility Week in Cape Town from 14-16 May will give a unique...
Plastics|SAis proud to welcome Isabelle Brettenny as the new regional training manager for the Western Cape, with effect from 1 March 2013. Isabelle will be based at the Maitland office. Education and career highlights She obtained her Bachelor of...
Following the successful implementation of a pilot project that uses PVC pipe as bins for discarded fishing line along the Overberg’s Gansbaai shoreline, beaches on the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape coasts will soon have bins in which...
Few people consider that mortality waste can be considered as hazardous waste. Further to this, these remains can generate large amounts of leachate if disposed of in landfills as solid waste. This appears to be the case in cities such as Cape Town...
The creative conversion of a decommissioned Safmarine shipping container into a much-needed classroom for a rural South African school – undertaken by Tsai Design Studio on behalf of Safmarine and its retail customer, Woolworths – recently...
The Western Cape has added welcome impetus to a growing trend by provincial governments to embrace alternative building technologies (ABTs) as a cost-effective and sustainable solution to housing local communities. The Western Cape’s...
