Waste pickers contribute to local economies and to environmental sustainability. While recognition for their contributions is growing, waste-pickers are still looked down upon. In SA they collect as much as 80% of post-consumer packaging and paper material and are key to SA’s economy.
Pikitup, the waste management entity of the City of Johannesburg, confirms that the protest action has ended, and waste collection services have been restored across all 12 depot areas, whilst engagements are underway with ad hoc services casuals....
Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts, has launched an e-waste collection and recycling pilot project in Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape. Speaking at the launch on Wednesday, Swarts described the initiative as a...
What does zero waste really mean? Kate Stubbs – the strategy, marketing and business development director at EnviroServ – sheds some light around the realities, misconceptions and practical steps behind the zero waste journey. “Zero...