In an effort to keep the beauty of the Cape winelands pristine, the Drakenstein Municipality is proposing a bylaw that will ban single-use plastic. This new Integrated Waste Management bylaw could make Drakenstein the first municipality in South...
A tonne of recyclable paper products can save around three cubic metres of landfill space – and South Africa’s paper recycling industry collects around 1.2 million tonnes of paper and paper packaging every year. This material feeds the...
Poor infrastructure, coupled with socio-economic issues and service delivery problems, manifests in excess waste not collected or recycled. This waste adorns streets, the environment and troublingly, water systems like rivers. Rudi Clark, regional...
South Africa’s waste challenges can seem overwhelming, but there is a history of forward-looking and highly skilled South Africans in the waste sector, and they have been active for some time. The challenges that South Africa is facing are being...
