One hundred and thirteen waste pickers from 42 towns across all provinces in South Africa convened to celebrated a decade of work since the 2009 launch of South African Waste Pickers Association, a movement of and for all waste pickers working in...
The City of Johannesburg will invest R80-million on upgrading waste management service provider Pikitup’s central camp depot, in Soweto. Mayor Herman Mashaba says the upgrades and renovations will “restore employee dignity and increase productivity...
Conservationists around the country are rejoicing after news broke that the dumping of liquid waste at landfill sites in South Africa will be banned from 22 August 2019. The Department of Environmental Affairs’ Albie Modise confirmed the new...
South Africa seems to be on the right path with recycling plastic. According to a study by Plastics South Africa, a body representing the South African plastics industry, more than 519,370 tons of plastic waste was collected for recycling in 2018....
