Given the country’s energy crisis, and infrastructure woes there are some reservations about Electric Vehicles (EVs) as a viable alternative to petrol cars in South Africa. The reality is that EVs are already commonplace, with an 83% increase...
Waste pickers have become part of the South African landscape, physically they are visible either on the streets or on landfill sites, and economically they have become the sorting and collecting labour that moves our waste to better places than...
As South Africa moves towards a circular economy, waste streams are being treated as a resource. There has been a considerable push towards recycling and reuse, and organic waste is an often-overlooked stream that can lead to a positive...
In a perfect world waste would never interact with the water supply. The reality is that South Africa’s service delivery, corruption and lack of environmental enforcement leads to massive quantities of waste in our rivers and dams. Tarryn Johnston,...
