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Nov
16
2022
By The African Mirror
Burning waste must end: African leaders look to recycling for better health and value

Burning waste must end: African leaders look to recycling for better health and value

ENVIRONMENT
WHEN African environment ministers met in Senegal in mid-September, they made one of the most important decisions in the history of waste management in Africa. The ministers laid the foundation to end the open dumping and burning of waste. Putting this decision into action will have multiple economic, environmental and social implications. It could save millions of lives on the continent. Author DESTA MEBRATU, Professor and United Nations High Level Champions (UNHLC) Lead on Waste, Stellenbosch University One hundred and eighty million tons of waste, about 9% of the global total, was generated in sub-Saharan Africa in 2016. Only about…
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May
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Johannesburg is threatening to sideline informal waste pickers. Why it’s a bad idea

Johannesburg is threatening to sideline informal waste pickers. Why it’s a bad idea

AFRICITIES
LIKE all cities in the world, Johannesburg, South Africa’s commercial capital, has a waste management problem. In 2018/19, more than 290 000 tonnes of waste was illegally dumped in neighbourhoods across the city. Illegal dumping will likely increase, as the four legal landfills will be full in less than three years. MELANIE SAMSON, Sr Lecturer in Human Geography, University of the Witwatersrand Various efforts have been made over the years to try and manage the problems better. A contentious, and politically sensitive issue in all of these efforts has been the role of waste reclaimers, the informal actors who earn…
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