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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:50 |
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 The modern type of sewage plant is normally associated with intricate processes, technology and requiring skilled labour and equipment.
The costs involved in this type of operation are just too costly. With the current restructuring of the old municipalities to form a super city type structure, it is often very difficult to provide basic services to all the people in its region.
Bearing this in mind and the huge costs involved in providing sewage connections to all communities, it is not suprising that the authorities often cannot afford to provide the necessary services.
GES accepted the challenge, researched this science and came up with a system to treat domestic as well as industrial effluent. The technology used for this plant includes the SAM (submerged aerated media) as well as RAS (Re-activated Sludge) tehcnology.
For more info download the GES brochure from this link.
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Posted by Enviroadmin
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Monday, 22 August 2011 13:02 |
by Pieter de Haas
I remember watching a documentary about the slums in India and I was profoundly impressed when they showed how trash was recycled in these areas. In fact up to ninety percent of all waste was recycled. That is an outstanding figure when we compare this to our first world countries.
In South Africa recycling is, I believe, still in its infancy, yet we have a great awareness of this. At selected garages, schools and other designated areas around the country there are containers for glass, paper, plastics and other recyclable items. I remember how our school had these too, we even held our yearly plant a tree day initiatives and I can recall how little we used the containers and how little it changed our ways of consumerism.
However there are many initiatives and projects out there ready to recycle our waste. Look at the price we have put on plastic bags when we do shopping. Great initiative but in the long run it might be of poor insight. We are taking the easy way out and with nature there is no such thing just like in economics as a free lunch.
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