As South Africa enters 2026, the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) highlights the waste management trends for this year and calls on all South Africans to embrace simple changes that collectively protect our planet. With...
South Africa’s waste sector stands at a crossroads. Years of analysis have confirmed what practitioners already know: The country’s solid waste management system is overburdened, underfunded, and misaligned with its sustainability ambitions, though...
The rapid rise in the global population, coinciding with the manufacturing, mining, processing and demand for consumer goods, has placed additional pressure on waste management. Whilst there is an ongoing effort to divert waste, both municipal and...