waste management

With 70 community collectors spread across the port city of Durban, start-up Isphepho Enviro has won the award for the best environmental awareness initiative in the Sustainable Waste Management…

As part of Namibia's solid waste management strategy, two waste buy-back centres will be set up in the capital Windhoek by 2024. The project is funded by the European Union (EU). The city of…

While Algeria recycles only 30% of its 13 million tons of waste produced annually, the National Waste Agency (AND) will install a selective waste sorting system in the wilayas of Boumerdès, Oran and…

After months of controversy surrounding Kenya's Green Economy Implementation Plan (GEIP), the East African government has embarked on drafting a new law on sustainable waste management. The text is…

French Development Agency (AFD) is confirming a €130 million loan for sanitation in Yopougon, in the autonomous district of Abidjan in Ivory Coast. The financing is intended for the construction of…

A couple of months ago 250,000 people came together to take part in the biggest ever investigation into household plastic. Now we can finally reveal the investigation results – and they are …

Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI), a waste management technology provider based in Zurich, Switzerland, is setting up operations in Kenya through a partnership with environmental solutions company Sintmond…

While Ghana generates 170,000 tonnes of e-waste every year, a quarter of which ends up in the Agbogbloshie landfill on the outskirts of Accra, the government is preparing to inaugurate an e-waste…

With 22 million people in Nigeria illiterate, financial professionals through the Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (ACCA), are launching the "Recycling for Education Campaign".

While Taita Taveta County in the northern part of Kenya generates an average of 190 tonnes of solid waste every day, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) will install a waste…

Global experts, local stakeholders and community establish a task force for Gozo to implement the island’s sustainable transition, coordinated by GRDA with GTI support

In Morocco, the port city of Casablanca will set up a landfill with a waste recovery and sorting centre on a 260-hectare plot of land being acquired by the municipal authorities. The installation…