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...
South Africa’s metros are racing to plug electricity gaps and meet the Waste Act’s diversion targets before 2030. Yet on the fringes of almost every city lie dozens of long-forgotten legacy dump sites — un-engineered mounds that still belch...
The recently wrapped pilot project saw pupils at three primary schools in Athlone energised around the topic of recycling, collecting just shy of 700 kilograms of recyclable packaging in March alone. The pilot was run at the Norma Road, Kewtown and...
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,...