Striking waste workers blockade Durban streets
Striking workers from the Durban Solid Waste department have blockaded roads in eThekwini and left waste pilling up in the streets. Source: SABC Digital News
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Re-imagining waste-to-energy for micro-generation
The exploration of alternative energy sources and projects has been all the ‘buzz’ again, particularly in response to challenges Eskom continues to face and the looming reality of further loadshedding across the country, as we head into the winter...
Earth Day 2019: no time to waste
Did you know that lost and wasted food accounts for 8% of our global greenhouse gas emissions? The first Earth Day was in 1970. Since then Earth’s population has grown by 4 billion people. We produce more than enough to feed everyone, but...
Earth Day triggers call for better waste management
On 22 April people around the globe celebrated Earth Day, calling for better global ecological awareness. Ahead of this year’s event, Western Cape MEC for environmental affairs and development planning Anton Bredell called on South Africans to do...
Coming soon: waste picker integration
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), together with sector role players, has developed guidelines for how municipalities can formally integrate waste pickers. Waste pickers collect between 80% and 90% of all of the post-consumer packaging...
Developing guidelines for waste picker integration
The Department of Environmental Affairs recently hosted a National Waste Pickers Integration Workshop to provide insight into the role of waste pickers in the recycling sector. The workshop also discussed the draft national guidelines on waste...
Opportunity to regularise pre-Waste Act hazardous waste facilities: But what are the risks?
On 5 April 2019, the Minister of Environmental Affairs gave notice of her intention to require any person who lawfully conducted a hazardous waste management activity on 1 July 2009, when the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008...
Is it possible to live a ‘zero waste’ life?
Bianca Mularoni, a postgraduate Sustainability student at the University of Edinburgh, explores her journey towards living a low waste life. Nowadays, individuals produces massive amounts of waste in their daily life, with major environmental...
City of Johannesburg sets out to register all waste pickers
The City of Johannesburg in conjunction with Pikitup has set out on a drive to register all waste pickers within the City. The drive, which has already seen 1200 waste pickers registered in Region D, aims to quantify the impact waste pickers have...
