Early on the morning of June 24, the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni, Mondli Gungubele, together with the City’s senior officials spread across all informal settlements around the City to keep them clean. The initiative was part of the seventh...
During the past two years, South Africa’s waste management industry has witnessed updates to the National Waste Management Act. Proper and professional waste management practices are advocated, and the implementation of environmentally conscious...
Since 2001, the National Waste Management Strategy (DEA, 2011) has set targets for all municipalities, secondary cities and large towns to initiate separation at source programmes. Such programmes require a collection system that is able to keep...
The difference between a circular economy and a recycling economy, and why we should care  By Hermann Erdman, CEO of REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa)  Our dominant linear ‘take-make-consume-dispose’ economy...
