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- South Africa: Medical Waste Horror 3 Dec 2009 00:41 GMT
... Welkom is the Green Scorpions' biggest medical waste discovery to date. The dumping breaks waste management laws and poses serious public health risks, ... Garden Hospital in Chatsworth. The hospitals have waste-disposal contracts with the Wasteman Group, which includes ...
- Recycling Discarded Flip-Flops 8 Dec 2009 15:50 GMT
... The once-pristine Nyongo Sharif beach along Kenya's northern coast, ... unlikely dumping ground for the world's plastic garbage. But the Somali upwelling, a powerful current, ... “Tons and tons and tons of plastic waste, including flip-flops, flow down rivers and clog drainage ...
- Tightening legislation sees significant growth '©in waste handling sector 10 Dec 2009 22:51 GMT
... The South African hazardous waste management market is 
experiencing rapid growth owing ... growth owing to tightening legislation related to waste collection, transportation and disposal. Environmental inspectors have been pressuring waste-generating companies ...
- Waste saga deepens 3 Dec 2009 06:51 GMT
... found another two sites of buried medical waste in the Welkom area in the Free ... the waste until a suitable solution for disposal, either a certified landfill or incinerator, could ... been dumped there by South Africa's second-largest waste management company, Wasteman. It included bandages, body parts ...
- More medical waste dumps found 3 Dec 2009 10:37 GMT
... found another two sites of buried medical waste in the Welkom area in the Free ... the waste until a suitable solution for disposal, either a certified landfill or incinerator, could ... been dumped there by South Africa's second-largest waste management company, Wasteman. It included bandages, body parts ...
- Minister appeals for African nations 5 Dec 2009 08:19 GMT
... available adequate and predictable financial resources to African countries as a contribution to fight against ... change slated for December 7-8 in Denmark. Zambia’s position on climate change resonates with the ... arising from increased mining and industrial activities, waste management, deforestation, land degradation, water and air pollution ...
- Hand over used phones for recycling 10 Dec 2009 21:54 GMT
... Seeking to lessen pollution in Uganda, Nokia, the world’s largest ... “expired” phones to hand them over for recycling. Ms Dorothy Ooko, the Nokia communications manager ... among manufacturing corporations, which are scrambling for waste as a source of raw materials to ...
- South Africa's National Planning Commission and tackling poverty 4 Dec 2009 18:07 GMT
... In light of South Africa's entrenched poverty, William Gumede argues that ... every resource and talent at the country's disposal, Gumede writes, and instilling a culture 'where ... that the country could not afford to waste the littlest of resources. These central planning ...
- Cape Town firm pioneers production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil, chicken fat 10 Dec 2009 22:19 GMT
... A Cape Town-based renewable-energy company, BioGreen Diesel, is currently pioneering ... Diesel, is currently pioneering the conversion of waste cooking oil into a less expensive, pollution-free ... of using a biodesel blend to fuel transport trucks. By using a biodiesel/diesel mix, Pick ...
- Human limbs 'scattered around dump site' 3 Dec 2009 05:11 GMT
... found another two sites of buried medical waste in the Welkom area in the Free ... the waste until a suitable solution for disposal, either a certified landfill or incinerator, could ... been dumped there by South Africa's second-largest waste management company, Wasteman. It included bandages, body parts ...
- Sundance Announces Full 2010 Lineup Next year I'll be attending my first-ever Sundance Film Festival, so I'm probably more excited than most that they've just announced their lineup, including both the obscure indies that will deb 4 Dec 2009 00:11 GMT
... Next year I'll be attending my first-ever Sundance Film Festival, so ... outer space for fun. North American Premiere Waste Land / United Kingdom (Director: Lucy Walker)—Lives ... North American Premiere Saint Louis Blues (Un Transport En Commun) / France, Senegal (Director and ...
- Climate summit opens amid warning, hope 7 Dec 2009 13:57 GMT
... (IANS) The UN climate summit, on whose decisions the future of ... quarter of Indians believe in recycling consumer waste and saving electricity. "They believe that the ... the government should invest in improving public transport systems and that there should be government ...
- Inside story: Nuclear's next generation 10 Dec 2009 17:33 GMT
... Inside story: A group of six new blueprints for nuclear power ... do something about the growing stock of nuclear waste in indefinite temporary storage. These new priorities favour new ...
- World Cup nations team up against climate change 8 Dec 2009 06:51 GMT
... As climate talks began in Copenhagen on Monday, key football ... goals for the environment in 2010. Tackling transport is central to greening the World Cup, ... at World Cup venues, the cleanup of waste hot spots in Mangaung, education programs on ...
- 2010 World Cup teams move to cut down on gas emissions 8 Dec 2009 09:16 GMT
... Football - As the climate talks gain momentum in Copenhagen and ... goals for the environment in 2010. Tackling transport is central to greening the World Cup, ... at World Cup venues, the clean-up of waste hot spots in Mangaung, education programmes on ...
- Efforts to mitigate '©environmental impacts '©continue 3 Dec 2009 22:33 GMT
... Every effort has been made to reduce the negative 
environmental ... problem. Acsa has provided the Department of Transport with input on a draft national policy ... by a black economic-empowerment company, to sort waste for recycling, such as plastic, oil and ...
- What the Copenhagen climate... 4 Dec 2009 09:49 GMT
... 350)this.width=350;" /> rom December 7, 2009, environment ministers ... fuels in the generation of energy (37.5%), transport (17.3%), industrial processes (22.2%) and agriculture (7.8%)2, ... agricultural soils; the efficient utilisation of crop waste and understanding more ecologically complex interactions on ...
- On the road to Damascus, again 4 Dec 2009 07:14 GMT
... only 1% of the world's emissions, its emissions intensity (emissions per unit ... by 2020; electrify 20% of all personal transport; electrify a quarter of our offshore gas ... grid using renewable resources and be a zero-waste business. We're already recycling all of our ...
- What companies must do in climate change 4 Dec 2009 07:14 GMT
... only 1% of the world's emissions, its emissions intensity (emissions per unit ... by 2020; electrify 20% of all personal transport; electrify a quarter of our offshore gas ... grid using renewable resources and be a zero-waste business. We're already recycling all of our ...
- Climate trash talking 10 Dec 2009 04:37 GMT
... Independent international trash committee wants global garbage issue to be addressed by COP 15 ... the COP15 climate summit. The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) is urging the COP 15 players ...
- Green Scorpions Sting Yet Another Site 3 Dec 2009 15:06 GMT
... The Green Scorpions have unearthed more medical waste buried in the Welkom area in as many ... Scorpions are currently investigating the Institute of Waste Management of Southern African (IWMSA) for allegedly dumping 300 tons of ...
- 12-10-09 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE... 10 Dec 2009 15:56 GMT
... TYLER PERRY'S MOM DIES: Filmmaker announced news on his Web ... partner. You need it to flush the waste products your body makes when it breaks ... it processes protein. You need it to transport nutrients to your muscles. You need it ...
- Commissioning according to planned schedule 10 Dec 2009 23:19 GMT
... The Goedgevonden coal mine, in Mpumalanga province, is being ... processing plant, a water recovery system, a waste disposal system, two product stackers and a ... to be effective, agreement from South African transport utilities Transnet and Transnet Freight Rail was ...
- Climate change: Guide to the hottest subject on earth 5 Dec 2009 12:10 GMT
... Climate is different from weather. It is a long-term (usually ... replacing fossil fuels by renewable sources, cutting waste of energy, recycling, increasing forest cover to absorb more carbon ...
- SA's World Cup challenges 7 Dec 2009 14:50 GMT
... Reuters have compiled a list of challenges SA faces as ... last June about the key issues of transport and accommodation capacity for the World Cup. ... comments to justify their chosen path? Dont waste your energy trying to talk sense to ...
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