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waste pickers

National emergency: The urban models turning waste into opportunity
Opinion
/ 26 September 2025

National emergency: The urban models turning waste into opportunity

An innovative project for informal waste pickers in Cape Town demonstrates how empowerment and a circular economy can make a difference

By Warren Hewitt
South Africa’s landfills reaching capacity, not properly managed
The Green Guardian
/ 10 September 2024

South Africa’s landfills reaching capacity, not properly managed

The solution is not to expand or build more landfills but rather to focus on recycling, say waste management experts

By Aarti Bhana
Creating food security through training, technology and the establishment of Buy-Back Centres for recycling waste
Partner Content
/ 17 May 2024

Creating food security through training, technology and the establishment of Buy-Back Centres for recycling waste

Initiatives by the Gauteng Department of Social Development, Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment

By Thabo Mohlala
CCBSA, local communities join forces to help create a World Without Waste
Partner Content
/ 1 December 2023

CCBSA, local communities join forces to help create a World Without Waste

The goal is for every package to have more than one life

By CCBSA
Informal waste collection shouldn’t let plastic polluters off the hook
The Green Guardian
/ 27 January 2022

Informal waste collection shouldn’t let plastic polluters off the hook

The image of plastic recycling as the solution to plastic pollution is perpetuated by statistics that highlight successes, which are communicated in tonnes and percentages that are difficult to visualise.

By Teresa Sandra Perez
South Africa and other countries ignore waste reduction in climate plan
The Green Guardian
/ 4 November 2021

South Africa and other countries ignore waste reduction in climate plan

‘If plastic were a country, it would already be the fifth-largest emitter in the world’

By Sheree Bega
Waste pickers should be seen as essential workers
National
/ 19 October 2021

Waste pickers should be seen as essential workers

Come rain or sun, waste pickers push their trolleys full of recycled material. But despite providing an environmental service they are not treated as the public-service workers they are

By Musawenkosi Cabe
Sisters pave the way with ecobricks
The Green Guardian
/ 19 September 2021

Sisters pave the way with ecobricks

The durable bricks are made from 30% recycled plastic, some of which they collect from a network of 50 waste pickers

By Sheree Bega
Don’t Miss: Our weekly round-up of live and in-person events
Friday
/ 6 May 2021

Don’t Miss: Our weekly round-up of live and in-person events

Travels in Afrofuturism, Themba Mkhize and an exhibition focusing on Johannesburg’s informal recyclers take centre stage in our weekly events guide

By Arts Desk

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