‘Sidelining waste pickers is a bad idea’
May 08, 2021
3 minutes
MELANIE SAMSON
The Conversation Africa
WALDO SWIEGERS Bloomberg
LIKE all cities in the world, Johannesburg, South Africa’s commercial capital, has a waste management problem. In 2018/19, more than 290 000 tons 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.
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
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