The Southern African Vinyls Association (SAVA) has reported strong progress in PVC recycling and product stewardship, with the organisation exceeding national recycling targets for post-consumer PVC packaging despite increasingly difficult conditions facing the recycling sector in South Africa.

South Africa is running out of landfill space fast. With major hubs like Cape Town and Johannesburg facing less than five years of remaining landfill capacity, the linear disposal method of landfilling is not serving the country’s waste management challenges. In addition to the landfill airspace challenge, organic waste carries an estimated R8.7 billion annual cost on our economy through landfill practices. Addressing the urgent need for organic waste diversion, Oricol Environmental Services and Cape Town Biogas have partnered to transform how the Western Cape handles organic waste, moving beyond simple disposal to a true zero-waste-to-landfill outcome.

Marine conservationists face countless technical challenges in their mission to protect ocean ecosystems. From securing coral fragments in turbulent waters to maintaining research equipment in corrosive saltwater environments, the practical demands of underwater conservation work require reliable, environmentally safe solutions.

EDF power solutions announces the commissioning of the 420MW Koruson 1 cluster, including three wind farms, namely San Kraal, Phezukomoya, and Coleskop, located between Noupoort and Middelburg, on the border of the Eastern and Northern Cape in South Africa.

The right combination of data and algorithms can produce astounding improvements in efficiency, speed, and oversight. While many water utilities already use digital monitoring and analytics to manage operations, artificial intelligence builds on these capabilities by identifying patterns in large datasets, enabling predictive insights, and supporting more informed decision-making. Utility managers are taking note, with around 15% of large water utilities across the world using artificial intelligence, set to reach 30% by 2026, according to the Xylem Water Technology Trends 2025 report. By 2035, three-quarters of water utilities will use some form of AI.