Samsung achieved a third successive Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) level one contribution status...
Issued by Samsung South Africa 2 days ago
In order to tackle South Africa's rising e-waste challenge, The Appliance Bank (TAB) has teamed up with the local chapter of the global Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) programme...
Justice Tootla hopes to make a practical contribution to saving the environment for future generations by using technology to help organisations manage their waste responsibly...
Sindy Peters 8 Apr 2021
Draft amendments to the regulations and notices regarding Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in the Waste Sector have been published for public consultation...
While McNeil's introduction to the world of waste was, as he describes it, "purely coincidental", he has a love for the industry and all its facets that ultimately contribute to environmental sustainability.
Sindy Peters 2 Mar 2021
The megacity of Lagos has an estimated population of 24 million. And it's constantly growing, putting additional strain on a city that already has serious challenges...
Chidi Nzeadibe et al. 13 Jan 2021
Waste management can no longer be looked at with a linear view as we move towards 2021. We are seeing national as well as global leaders around the world creating massive awareness around the 'throw-away culture'...
Kate Stubbs 7 Jan 2021
Along with the Covid-19-related challenges, the waste sector has had to comply with fast-changing legislation...
As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in South Africa and across the world, vast quantities of plastic waste are also rising...
Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa 29 Jul 2020
It is estimated that South Africa generates approximately 108 million tonnes of waste per year. As much as 90% of this waste (with an estimated value of more than R25.2 billion) is dumped or disposed of in landfill sites across the country, which are rapidly filling up and approaching closure...
Francois Joubert and Julia Rushton 21 Jul 2020
Recycling is a vital part of the circular economy. It provides material input back into our market and minimises the amount of waste that goes to landfill. With this twofold benefit, recycled material has quickly earned the title of the world's 'seventh resource' beside water, air, oil, natural gas, coal and minerals...
The South African waste management industry is constantly developing and can be counted as one that is most efficient within the African continent...
Kate Stubbs 8 Jan 2020
The two newest buildings in the OxGlen precinct, known as OxGlen Block 3 and Block 4, are targeting a four-star Green Star SA Office v1.1 Design rating...
Working in partnership with the dti, Samsung aims to create substantial employment in the e-waste sector...
In 2018, South Africa recovered 1.285 million tonnes of recyclable paper products, putting the country's paper recovery rate at 71.7%...
The UN has estimated that the global population will near 11.3 billion by 2060. Populations in Africa are expected to experience just as much exponential growth...
Kate Stubbs 12 Jul 2019
The South African water sector is dependent on one source of electricity supply which makes it vulnerable to load shedding, shortage of supply and increasing steep tariffs...
Dr John Ngoni Zvimba 11 Jun 2019
Research from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicates that seven million people die each year from air pollution, where nine out of ten people breathe in polluted air each day...
South Africans must look at waste from an economic perspective as the green economy of the waste sector has the potential to create jobs and empower small, medium and micro-sized enterprises...
Supported by the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), seven UN entities have come together to call for an overhaul of the current electronics system...
Government has launched South Africa's first ever research chairs on waste management...
South Africa is nowhere near the waste crisis that we are seeing in other developing/emerging economies, however, we are most definitely generating a massive amount of waste...
Jason McNeil 8 Jan 2018
According to Frost & Sullivan, water and wastewater end-user demand, power generation in emerging economies, and investment in modernising water and wastewater infrastructure are factors igniting pockets of growth in the global centrifugal pumps market...
Global waste management group Averda recently announced its acquisition of Solid Waste Technologies (SWT), a healthcare medical waste company with over 20 years' experience...
In February of this year, the country's first RDF plant was launched, and will now start supplying its fuel internationally...
The waste sector has been identified as a critical sector which has the potential to contribute substantially to economic growth. Micro-collectors are key to the waste sector...
National Treasury on Monday, 20 June, published the draft regulations on the carbon offset in terms of the Draft Carbon Tax Bill for public comment and further consultation...
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says there is a need to explore practical solutions to coordinate waste management initiatives, primarily through technological innovation...
By incorporating circular economy principles, items that would generally be disposed of as waste can be reused multiple times...
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says the department will hand over more mechanised vehicles to registered e-waste collectors...
East Africa is home to some of the world's fastest growing cities, with the urban population increasing by 4.35% each year. ..
Sarah Colenbrander, Andrew Sudmant, Andy Gouldson 24 Mar 2016
The Treasury has published the Draft Carbon Tax Bill for public comment by 15 December 2015...
Graeme Palmer 9 Dec 2015
At the recent national consultative conference on electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) management, the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa reaffirmed government's commitment to working with the waste sector in meeting its challenges.
The Landfill 2015 Conference and Exhibition, hosted by the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA), the Landfill and Waste Treatment Interest Group (LAWTIG) and the Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa (GIGSA), took place on 15 and 16 September in Tulbagh in the Western Cape...
A national consultative conference on electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) management was recently held at the Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre in Gauteng...
Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, says government is waging a war on waste and prioritising contributing to the development and growth of the recycling economy...
Plastics are one of the most used materials in today's world because of its various properties, ranging from cost saving and light weighting to durability and longevity...
Delanie Bezuidenhout 20 Apr 2015
South Africa is sitting on R25bn in unlocked investment in the waste sector...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) reminds individuals and corporates dealing with waste on a daily basis, to be at the forefront of waste management issues and regulation...
Municipalities and businesses are urged to attend the biennial waste management conference, WasteCon2014, taking place from 6-10 October 2014 at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West in the Western Cape.
The City of Tshwane recently hosted a Green Business Breakfast aimed at attaining support from the business sector in Tshwane to reach the city's vision of being a low-carbon, resource-efficient and climate-resilient city by 2055.
The waste industry has long been perceived as a rather dirty business with low ethical standards. But it appears things are shifting and surprisingly, women are increasingly active in driving the change towards a more innovative, ethical and properly legislated industry.
Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi on Tuesday, 6 August 2013, led a roundtable discussion with mayors and municipal managers on waste management and water conservation issues at Emperor's Palace in Kempton Park.
The issues around ethical behaviour and practice in the field of medical waste management and the consequences if such a code of ethics is not adhered to, are about to be tackled by experts in the field, at the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA)'s Health Care Waste Summit & Expo 2011, to be held at Emperor's Palace, Johannesburg, 16 -17 May 2011.