A switch to aluminium cans is set to revolutionise the informal scrap and recycling industries in SA.
An offer of free LED globes is one way in which the power utility is trying to reduce consumption, writes Don Boroughs.
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/ 25 February 2008
South African consumers who want to help prevent the next round of load-shedding by buying an energy-efficient TV will find themselves in the dark.
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/ 11 February 2008
From a distance Shadrack Monkhe bears an uncanny resemblance to the Collect-a-Can man seen in the recycling organisation’s advertisements. At the edge of a road in Vanderbijlpark, he pushes a wheelbarrow heaped to capacity with littered beverage containers. Even the setting is appropriate.
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/ 16 November 2007
The transformation of diesel’s reputation — from a sooty stain on the environment to the saviour of the planet — has taken place remarkably fast. This 180-degree turnabout was completed last month, when BMW distributed half a million copies of a four-page, glossy brochure touting its new diesel X5 SUV as a solution to the greenhouse effect, writes.
Like a bloodhound on the scent of a crime, Kerry Sink enters Portugal Fisheries in Troyeville, Johannesburg, and heads straight for a freezer at the rear of the store. The 33-year-old marine biologist closely scrutinises a package of crayfish tails. ”See the scalloped lines on the shell?” she asks. ”Illegal East Coast rock lobsters.”