Joburg waste piles up amid labour disputes and landfill closures
Refuse from the Randburg depot is being diverted nearly 40 minutes south to the only operating landfills. Photos: Seth... Read more
13 Mar
Security guards shot while escorting garbage collectors in Cape Town
City of Cape Town rubbish collectors escorted by law enforcement in Philippi. Archive photo: Sandiso Phaliso One is in... Read more
22 Nov, 2024
Bid to head off waste from solar panels
Two producer responsibility organisations (PROs) are working together to devise a solution for the safe disposal of used solar... Read more
25 Jun, 2024
Waste-management services firm Interwaste is playing a fundamental role in helping businesses make the ecological transition to a circular economy
A silent crisis is simmering and, unless action is taken now, South Africa will undoubtedly not be able to... Read more
1 Mar, 2024
Tunisia ex-minister jailed over hazardous waste scandal
Tunis – A Tunisian former environment minister has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in... Read more
5 Jan, 2023
Spain busts criminals smuggling e-waste to Africa
Madrid – Spanish police have broken up a criminal group that smuggled over 5 000 tons of hazardous electronic... Read more
4 Jan, 2023
Cameroon’s electronic waste recyclers struggle despite historic law
Yaounde – Sheltered from the harsh central African sun by a patched-up parasol, Ismael Alioum rummages through piles of... Read more
1 Nov, 2022
Tunisia to return illegally imported waste to Italy
Tunis – Tunisia will return more than 280 containers of waste illegally imported from Italy in 2020, the north African... Read more
15 Feb, 2022
Firm transforms waste as Morocco faces trash ‘time bomb’
Meknes – Recycling in Morocco may be in its infancy, but the North African kingdom is making steady progress,... Read more
20 Dec, 2021
