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Recycle rather than expand or build more landfills.

Ubuntu can help achieve the dream of zero landfill

Our waste-management sites are filling up fast, with serious health and environmental consequences

Circular recycling: when you finish using a carton or a paper cup, ensure that you throw it into a recycling bin or bag, so it can be used again

Yes, you can recycle your paper cups and milk cartons

Technology has advanced and by recycling these, you can help to create jobs and reduce landfills

Every tonne of food that becomes compost releases less than 1% of the gases non-composted waste releases

Waste and Chemical Management

Winner: Bokashi Bran

The City of Tshwane’s failure to apply for a waiver for Aucamp

The future of waste management in Africa

Achieving zero waste is not just a pipe dream

Solid waste management and sustainable development

Waste management is a basic human need and can also be regarded as a basic human right

Nairobi’s current waste disposal system is fraught with major problems.

Nairobi can fix its serious waste problem

Nairobi has failed to prioritise waste disposal which means that it has a massive garbage problem.

World’s biggest fly farm coming to Cape Town

Apart from its scenic tourist attractions, the Mother City will soon boast a massive commercial fly farm with 8.5-billion insects.

Drowning in a sea of waste

Drowning in a sea of waste

The convenience of using plastic leaves our world smothered in rubbish.

A waste of energy

Landfills are a potential source of power but authorities are not doing enough to harness it, writes Faranaaz Parker.

Japan’s quest for a zero-waste community

The tiny village if Kamikatsu, in the densely wooded mountains of Shikoku island in south-west Japan, has a new obsession: rubbish.