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            <description><![CDATA[The mining industry is under growing pressure to improve productivity while reducing operating costs and its environmental footprint. At the launch of its new SRT100S off-highway mining truck, SANY is positioning hybrid technology as one way of addressing both challenges. Shannon De Ryhove has the story.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Southern Ocean-focused Constraining Carbon with Optimised Observing (COCO2) research project, which unites researchers in South Africa, Australia and the US, is now under way and will soon be delivering data to the South Africa-based Southern Ocean Carbon Climate Observatory (SOCCO). The institutions involved in the project are the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which hosts SOCCO, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the US ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2025 target of 43 GW of wind capacity by 2042 will require a clear and credible pathway from policy ambition to implementation, “with the immediate priority being to meet the interim target of 12.6 GW by 2030”, says industry organisation South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) senior technical adviser Santosh Sookgrim.  The IRP outlines the allocation of the country’s primary energy resources and aims to ensure that electricity demand is met cost efficiently and sustainably.  ]]></description>
            <author>Keabetswe Shilakwe</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's electricity tariff structure, not generation technology, is what will determine how renewable-energy assets get built over the next decade, but for now that structure still favours standalone wind over hybrid plants, says independent power producer (IPP) G7 Renewable Energies CEO Kilian Hagemann.

While co-located wind, solar and battery hybrids are often described as the new default for IPPs, Hagemann pushes back on that framing.
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            <description><![CDATA[Food processing and packaging solutions company Tetra Pak has commissioned a new PolyAl processing plant in Germiston, Gauteng – a R19-million investment that will help convert used beverage cartons into new industrial products. It aims to increase the country’s carton recycling rate to 40% by 2030.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[JSE-listed consumer goods and food company Tiger Brands has reported that three of its manufacturing facilities – the beverages plant and the home and personal care (HPC) plant, in Gauteng, and the Jungle cereals plant, in Cape Town – have achieved zero waste to landfill for three consecutive months. Collectively, the company says the sites have diverted more than 60 t of waste from landfill through improved waste segregation, operational changes, specialised waste treatment and partnerships that enable materials to be recycled, recovered or repurposed.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[University of Johannesburg (UJ) estimates that 44% of South Africa's fruit and vegetables are lost or wasted despite food insecurity affecting millions of households. Having researched how food waste occurs in the country, UJ finds that every day edible fruit and vegetables are discarded across Johannesburg not owing to a lack of willingness to reduce food waste, but as a result of systemic barriers leaving retailers without the infrastructure and support needed to keep edible produce out of landfill.]]></description>
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