For more than two decades, municipalities across South Africa’s West Coast District grappled with a mounting waste crisis: small, scattered landfill sites, many of them unlined, overfilled, and poorly controlled, were becoming both environmental...
Long before his career in waste management, Jarrod “Rod” Ball used to swim in an abandoned quarry near his childhood home. One day, the municipality began dumping waste into it; an event that left a lasting impression. At that early age, Ball had...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) was reliably informed that waste management services for the City will come to a standstill as landfill sites were refusing entry to tipper trucks and waste trucks. DA Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Helen Zille, visited the...
As South Africa grapples with worsening water insecurity, flooding, and infrastructure failures, attention is increasingly turning to a form of infrastructure that is often invisible on balance sheets but essential to economic and social stability:...
