The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says food wastage across the world – totalling 1.3 billion tonnes of food annually – is the largest source of global greenhouse gas emissions after China and the USA.
The project was launched earlier this month at the Gugas’thebe Arts & Cultural Centre in Langa and aims to encourage entrepreneurship and assist the local community with access to sustainable livelihoods.
One thing that I have learnt in the green industry is to not judge a book by its cover – not to make any assumptions about how “green” or not anybody is.
Spring brings the idea of new life and a fresh start to life, which includes living in a cleaner, unpolluted environment. September is traditionally the month in which South Africans from all walks of life are encouraged to clean-up and recycle where they work, live or play.
Earlier this week, SchoolMedia invited hundreds of school children from the Johannesburg CBD to join the organisation on a ‘Clean City Campaign.’
Climate change and sustainable development are two of the biggest issues facing society today. It is increasingly important for companies to reduce the environmental impacts of products and services through their entire life cycle.
The Cape Craft and Design Institute's annual collection of innovative handmade Western Cape products showcases some outstanding examples of upcycled design.
Scores of firefighters, volunteers and Working on Fire crew were deployed to temper the fires in the Franschhoek Mountains. Friends rose to the occasion with the generous donation of bottled water, beverages and food.
The South African plastics industry will be debating various issues that impact on its growth and future prospects with the first-ever industry specific conference, coming in March.
Lifeboats from an oil rig that was temporarily grounded on a small island in southern Alaska may have leaked as much as 272 gallons of diesel fuel into pristine waters along the shoreline, but that cannot be determined until a full inspection is completed, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
Durban and Cape Town residents will have to start looking seriously at drinking recycled water from the local sewage works within the next few years. Water supplies are running out and there is not enough time to build big new dams.
A Shell oil drilling vessel has run aground off an Alaska island during a severe storm while under tow, officials said, as environmentalists again warned against Arctic oil drilling.
The best local people, companies and organisations involved in post-consumer PET recycling were recently honoured at the 7th annual AGM and networking evening.
Being the premier sustainable packaging solutions company in Southern Africa, EcoPack addresses the need for environmentally responsible disposable food packaging solutions – from events catering to retail food packaging.
Beaches on the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape Coast will soon have their very own bins where fishermen can throw away their broken or used lines.
In 2010, a warm-hearted, creative woman in Kleinmond had the idea of teaching jobless women to make gift bags from waste paper.
Joburg's St Stithians College has instituted a radical environmental programme on campus. In addition to a significant investment in energy saving, a comprehensive dry recycling programme and water saving programmes, the College has embarked on a food waste recycling programme.
It is time that we drop the word ‘waste’ from our dictionaries. That’s where you find this noun explained as ‘squandering and careless spending’, relating also to the verb’s meaning of ‘expending needlessly and destroying completely.’
A clean technology business and investment conference presents a matchmaking platform for African renewable energy, waste management, water conservation, and recycling projects and initiatives on 16th and 17th October 2012 at the Killamey Country Club in Lower Houghton, Joburg.
The UK Government's £3bn flagship scheme to encourage private sector money flow into low carbon technology and green initiatives is on the hunt for projects with which to formally launch in October.
