Vodacom has pledged to promote sustainable waste management practices in support of government’s ThumaMina Good Green Deeds Programme. The ThumaMina Good Green Deeds programme was initiated by the Department of Environmental Affairs, with the...
After the hype surrounding #plasticfreejuly the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa is asking the question: How do we take our waste conscious attitude further in a truly sustainable way? Leon Grobbelaar, President of the IWMSA says we...
Piet Steyn, managing director of Oilkol, remembers a time in the late 1950s and 60s when people used to drag trolleys behind them through the streets collecting waste. Over 60 years later, has all that much changed? These people, who were mostly...
Each piece of waste has the potential to pollute the environment in a different way which is why there is no single suitable waste management approach to address all types of waste. The waste management hierarchy ranks waste management options in...
