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13 Sep 2021

Support for smaller W-Cape players in safely managing COVID-waste

By Staff Writer

With the third wave of the pandemic now in full effect, healthcare facilities and staff are having to manage growing quantities of hazardous medical waste in addition to their life-saving medical work. While bigger health facilities generally have an end-to-end waste management system in place, it’s the smaller health clinics or rural hospitals and their...
18 Dec 2020

National acclaim for female-owned recycling initiative

By Staff Writer

Mpumalanga recycling project, Bophelo Recycling, has received acclaim for improving the lives and livelihoods of Ermelo community members while making a positive difference to the environment. When Johanna Leshabane launched Bophelo Recycling in 2007 after being retrenched, little did she know that her dream of fighting unemployment in her community would evolve into an award-winning...
28 Oct 2020

Passion proves a success in the environmental sustainability sector

By Staff Writer

AECOM is ranked #1 in Engineering News Record’s (ENR’s) 2020 Top 200 Environmental Firms. This is the fifth year in a row that AECOM has topped the global analysis. “Our team is passionate about the environment as well as sustainable development, and awards such as these validate our view of and approach to both,” comments...
21 Oct 2019

Designing a city of the future

By Staff Writer

How would urban planners and architects design a city of the future? By 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach 9.8 billion. Nearly 70 per cent of this booming population of —6.7 billion people— is projected to live in urban areas. Lessons of the past and anticipating challenges of future architecture to ensure harmony...
20 Mar 2019

SAB supports recycling start-ups in Tembisa

By Staff Writer

SAB has developed a waste recovery programme in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, supporting 54 previously unemployed young men and women organised into registered co-operatives and managing their own waste recycling businesses.
11 Mar 2019

Discovery Health recovers R555m in fraud, waste and abuse savings for 2018

By Janice Roberts

In 2018, Discovery Health’s efforts to curb fraud, waste and abuse in the healthcare system resulted in a substantial R555m recovered on behalf of client schemes. “We also estimate that the ‘halo’ effect of our extensive fraud, waste and abuse-control activities has prevented additional fraud, waste and abuse to the value of approximately R5.1 billion...
10 Sep 2018

Towards a waste free South Africa

By Staff Writer

South Africans nationwide are joining the waste free movement to clean up our beaches and rivers this September. Coca-Cola’s bottling partners are leading over 14 clean ups across the country reaching as far as Mamelodi and Soweto to Durban and Muizenberg. This is in partnership with Plastics SA for Clean-up and Recycle Week which runs...
05 Mar 2018

Schneider Electric boosts dairy production worldwide

By Staff Writer

Schneider Electric’s food and beverage solutions are increasing the efficiency and sustainability of the industry and its dairy solutions allow users to seize new market and profit opportunities, thanks to zero waste and 100 per cent traceable production.
05 Feb 2018

Upcycling in food production

By Staff Writer

Sustainability and environmental management play an important role in the food industry. Nevertheless, regardless of how efficiently the machines work and how resource-friendly they produce, at the end of the day the manufacturers are still faced with the question: What to do with the waste materials that are left over? Anuga FoodTec from 20 to...
07 Aug 2017

Used cartons now recyclable in South Africa

By Staff Writer

Juice and milk cartons have long been one of the contributors to waste in South Africa’s landfill sites. In what is a major development for the South African paper and packaging recycling market, Mpact Recycling is pleased to announce that liquid cartons are now recyclable.

02 Aug 2017

Used juice and milk cartons now recyclable in South Africa

By Staff Writer

Juice and milk cartons have long been one of the contributors to waste in South Africa’s landfill sites.  In what is a major development for the South African paper and packaging recycling market, Mpact Recycling is pleased to announce that liquid cartons are now recyclable.