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Diaranson 25 Mei 2022

Environmentalists meet in South Africa to stem plastic waste

management agency Pikitup.

The city’s four landfill sites will be full in three
years, forcing them to find more landfill sites, of-
ficials say.

“Plastic is not biodegradable ... so it lives for a very
long time. It eats up our landfill space and is very
difficult to compact,” said Pikitup spokesman Muzi
Mkhwanazi.

In 2018 the city made it mandatory for residents to
separate plastic from other waste, but not many are
practicing that.

Johannesburg’s biggest landfill site in Turffontein
is a hive of activity as waste trucks drop off garbage
and waste pickers spread themselves across the area
to pluck out plastics, cardboard, bottles and wood
that can be sold to recyclers. The rest is crushed
and then covered by new deliveries of waste.

Thousands of freelance waste pickers work on the
streets of the sprawling metropolis as well as at the
landfill site. They sort various types of garbage into
what they can sell to recyclers in order to eke out a
living. Others have paid employment at recycling
centers.
(AP) — Environmental activists are meeting in try and its effects on the continent, say organizers.
South Africa this week to press governments and The participants are focusing on the actions need- Agnes Hlungwani says she has been supporting her
businesses to reduce the production of plastic be- ed to stop plastics from ruining Africa’s land and family by sorting plastic waste at the Whole Earth
cause it is harming the continent’s environment. seas, say the organizers, the African Marine Waste Recycling plant. When her husband died in 2006
Network. The conference follows the United Na- sorting waste was one of the only types of work she
The conference, “Towards Zero Plastics to the Seas tions Environmental Assembly’s resolution for the could get, she said.
of Africa,” being held in Gqeberha (formerly Port development of a legally binding treaty on plastic
Elizabeth), South Africa, through Friday brings to- waste by 2024. “I sent my children to school and I have supported
gether academics and experts on the plastics indus- myself. My husband is no longer around, but the
Despite a growing recycling industry, plastic waste children are grown up now, all because of this job,”
is piling up in Africa’s landfill sites, clogging storm- said Hlungwani.
water drainage systems and polluting rivers and
oceans. Waste campaigner Musa Chamane told The As-
sociated Press that the conference is necessary to
Africa has an average waste collection rate of 55% press decision-makers in businesses, governments
but only 4% of it is recycled, according to a report and municipalities to reduce plastic waste.
by the U.N. and the Center for Scientific and In-
dustrial Research in South Africa. Whole Earth Recycling manager Carmen Jordaan
said campaigns are needed to press industries and
This is way below the African Union’s target for ordinary residents to reduce plastic waste.
"Dios ta amor... y amor ta Dios, the continent’s cities to recycle at least 50% of their
maske mi no ta na e mundo aki, tur dia waste by next year. “Although there is sorting that takes place at the
lo mi ta banda landfill, it is not ideal as it is mixed with food waste,
di boso Curazon, mi por stens di loke In Johannesburg — South Africa’s most populous medical waste and that’s not hygienic,” she said. “If
Señor ta hasi" city with more than 6 million people — the land- we can stop using non-recyclable plastics in our
Salmo 33 fill sites are fast reaching capacity. The municipal- packaging material and encourage more people to
ity collects up to 40,000 tons of general waste in- start recycling we will have a better rate of recy-
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa cluding plastic every month, according to its waste cling.”
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Srs. Hyacintha Kelly-Dabian
Mihor conoci como “Dinichi”
Viuda di Johan Emmanuel Kelly
*16-08-1925 - †23-05-2022

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