The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has urged South African consumers to make it a waste-free festive season. Its mantra is to ‘refuse, reduce and reuse’ – then recycle. This involves taking reusable products back to shops, cut down on packaging and recycle as much as possible.
We have all heard the benefits of recycling, and how it is meant to mitigate the harmful effects that landfills have, but how seriously does society take it? In recent years there has been a considerable global push toward recycling, and reuse that...
Waste collection and transport are the public face of waste management. Landfills are the backend that keeps the sector going. As South Africa adopts circular economic practices, landfills still hold a key position in the waste sector, and act as...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Johannesburg demands an end to the unreasonable sewage billing of apartments, townhouses, complexes, and retirement units, which pay a minimum sewerage charge that is almost double that of single homes on...