ZWASA

08/03/2023

WASTE PICKERS ARE THE BACKBONE OF ZERO WASTE!

Today is International Waste Pickers Day and we stand in solidarity with our waste pickers who contribute so much to our communities.

They save cities millions of dollars in hauling fees alone and divert tonnes of waste from disposal, thus ensuring environmental health and public safety and reducing the impacts of climate change.

Unfortunately, their work is not considered legitimate labor and they receive neither the proper pay or benefits from the government. Instead, they are unrecognized, harassed, unsupported - and are left most vulnerable to the ravages of the climate crisis.

We wish to correct these injustices - and call on governments to provide social protection for waste pickers and their integration into solid waste management (SWM) systems for .

05/10/2022

Bring your own: No more single-use green plastic bags at Woolies from this week

In line with its 2018 commitment, Woolworths is scrapping single-use plastic bags from it's all its food stores from this week.

04/10/2022

A lot of taxpayer money is spent on the public's bad habits. Honolulu's solid waste experts break down how the system works and what people should be doing.

08/06/2022

A new review of data from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America has found that cancer-causing dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), unintentionally produced chemicals regulated in developed countries since the 1990s and internationally since 2004, continue to poison the food supp...

11/04/2022

Zero Waste Cities' April newsletter

As the urgency to decarbonise our economies and move towards a circular use of resources and materials increases, the clear limitations of single-use packaging are exposed, and reusable packaging is now standing high on the agenda of policy-makers and key market players. However, some of the bigges...

25/01/2022

Zero Waste Cities' first newsletter for 2022

In the European Union, it is estimated that 20% of food produced is wasted or lost. Not only is this contributing to the climate crisis - if food waste were a country, it would be the 3rd greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter - but it also causes unnecessary stress on the environment, the food chain and the...

17/09/2021

South Africa recycles only 14% of its plastic waste – yet the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is opening up applications for plastic waste import, all in the name of saving the plastic industry.

31/08/2021

“I think the days of waiting for recycling to work are over,” notes one environmentalist.

23/07/2021

The law aims to take the cost burden of recycling away from taxpayers. One environmental advocate said the change could be “transformative.”

20/07/2021

AfriForum het vandag die organisasie se jaarlikse vullisterreinouditverslag bekendgestel nadat vullisterreine in dorpe/stede waar AfriForum se takke geleë is, vroeër vanjaar geoudit is. Dié verslag gaan met Barbara Creecy, Minister van Omgewingsake, bespreek word as ’n deurlopende gesprek wat r...

13/07/2021

Open for comment: National Guideline for consideration of climate change implications in applications for environmental authorisations, atmospheric emission licences and waste management licences (comment due before 25 July 2021).

On 25 June 2021, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment published a Notice under the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998

08/07/2021

STOP WASTE COLONIALISM! We have seen the effects of waste colonialism in the African continent. The Global North cannot continue to export its waste problem onto the Global South, all countries need t