Addressing South Africa’s waste challenge needs joint effort from all of us, including everyday consumers, big producers, policymakers, municipalities and waste treatment facilities.
Consumers that sort their household waste can only recycle if the infrastructure for collecting and processing their waste exists. Similarly, recycling larger volumes of waste relies on more and more households to participate in sorting.
Organiser The organisers are Hold My Hand (HMH) and the DG Murray Trust (DGMT). DGMT incubates the HMH campaign. Competition Overview The Waste Not competition celebrates people who are already reducing, reusing and recycling and those with big ideas. It aims to...
The South African Plastics Recycling Organisation (SAPRO) is the national association of plastic recycling companies with a mandate to grow the recycling rate for waste plastics. The core of SAPRO's efforts is to 1) improve the quality of materials entering the...
MyPlas is a Cape Town-based plastic recycling company that works across the value chain to recover, process and reintroduce plastic waste into the economy. The company partners with schools, community organisations and industry bodies to strengthen local recycling...
Packa-Ching collects and pays for used recyclable packaging material from residents living in informal settlements and other areas with limited recycling infrastructure or services. Each kilogram of recyclable material submitted to Packa-Ching is weighed and paid for...
Diepsloot is not only illustrative of the main systemic causes of littering and dumping (e.g. limited waste removal in informal areas, inadequate waste removal in formal areas, unreliable and distant municipal services, limited bins in public areas) but also...
Umphakati is fostering a new socio-economy of recycling among residents in Soweto using social incentives. The incentive is inclusion in a funeral scheme that gives members access to more than R20 000 worth of equipment and catering items needed for hosting a funeral...
The Cape Agulhas Municipality and the Zero Waste Association of South Africa (ZWASA) have partnered on a Zero Organic Waste to Landfill Pilot Project in Bredasdorp, in the Western Cape. Their goal is to divert 100% of organic waste from the landfill by the year 2027....
The ReTrade Project offers community waste reclaimers an opportunity to trade their recyclables for credit, which they can then spend at the Trade Store on food, clothing, toiletries and other essentials. Contributors to the store include local businesses, which means...