Recycling Day raises the question: Where is SA’s waste plan?

Writing around Global Recycling Day, Stacey Jansen takes a hard look at the draft National Waste Management Strategy. She finds it rests on unreliable data, has no clear funding model and overlooks basics like working weighbridges at municipal sites.

Unless these gaps are fixed, and lessons are taken from the tyre programme that was dismantled in 2017, she argues that awareness campaigns on their own will not solve the problem.