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It investigates the short-term and long-term sectoral impacts of an environmental tax on hazardous waste in South African mining, using an open-economy multisectoral computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The results bear out the expectation that the possibilities for shifting higher production ...
Piloting of the South African Waste Information System (SAWIS) provided an opportunity to research, whether the collection of data for a national waste information system could, through a process of learning, change the way that waste is managed. Interviews with officials from municipalities and pri...
However, in order to achieve this and promote a manageable waste solution, the type of waste disposal infrastructure selected is important in bringing poor waste management to an end.Nick MannieWaste Aurecon South AfricaAiden BowersAurecon South AfricaJournal of the South African I...
Waste management is currently one of the main challenges faced by the African recycled polymer supply chain. Population growth rates are over 2% per year and the consequent increase in consumption of plastic packaging makes this the largest fraction of waste after organic, which brings more urgen...
The resultant exposure of parts of the continental shelf as dry land added a large coastal plain to the South African land mass, something that was particularly pronounced on the wide Agulhas Bank off the southern Cape coast. This area, now sometimes referred to as the Palaeo-Agulhas-P...
Therefore, this study aims to fill this knowledge gap in the South African context and presents current emissions and future projections of GHGs from municipal solid waste management for one metropolitan area in the country, namely, the eThekwini Municipality. In addition, it investigates ...
Sustainable Development in the South African Mining Industry: The Role of Cleaner Production and EMA The South African mining industry is increasingly embracing cleaner production (CP), albeit at a slow pace. Environmental management accounting (EMA) is still poor, in spite of increased awareness of...
South Africa as the world's seventh largest coal producer dominated the coal industry in the African continent in 2010. However, South Africa was one of the world's top five CMM emitters attributable to the high coal production and high gas content similar to AustraliaPermiancoals. In 2008, ...