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Picking at waste facilities – scavenging or entrepreneurshipPicking at waste facilities – scavenging or entrepreneurship

Author: Oelofse, Suzanna HH ; Strydom, WF Date: Oct 2010 Picking at landfills is a reality at most landfills in South Africa. It is often the poorest community members that resolve to picking as a way of making a living, typically under conditions that are not conducive to their health or safety. ... Read more
Reduce, reuse and recycle

Author: Afrika, M ; Oelofse, Suzanna HH ; Strydom, W ; Mvuma, G ; John, J Date: Oct 2010 The adoption of the internationally accepted waste management hierarchy (Sakai et al, 1996) into South African policy has changed the focus from “end of pipe” waste management towards waste minimisation (reuse, recycling and cleaner production). ... Read more
Role of district municipalities in waste management in South Africa

Author: Afrika, M Date: Oct 2010 Service delivery has become a source of much tension and protests in South Africa (Delivery, 2009) with fifty two major service delivery protests reported for the period January to August 2009 (COGTA, 2009). Failing waste management services, ... Read more
Waste a necessary evil for economically impoverished communities in least developed countries (LCDc): a case study

Author: Mvuma, G Date: Oct 2010 The nexus of rapid population growth and improved socio-economic status of a country have been established as having a close correlation to increasing quantities of wastes generated per capita. Various studies show that waste harvesters ... Read more
Waste management service delivery to all

Author: Afrika, M ; Oelofse, Suzanna HH ; Strydom, W ; Mvuma, G ; John, J Date: Oct 2010 One of the major challenges facing municipalities in South Africa is ensuring that all households within their areas of jurisdiction are provided with a basic level of waste service (DEAT, 2007). Huge waste service backlogs still exists in ... Read more
Why building capacity is a necessary but insufficient condition for improved waste management in South Africa: The knowledge–behaviour relationship

Author: Godfrey, Linda K ; Scott, D Date: Oct 2010 One of the main reasons given for the current state of waste management in South Africa includes human resource capacity constraints, in particular the difficulty in recruiting suitably qualified or skilled people, and the high turnover of ... Read more

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