For waste pickers, one man s trash becomes another one s treasure
By Staff Reporter
By Dominic Naidoo
Every day in South Africa, thousands of people traverse our neighbourhood streets and municipal landfills in search of trash that is otherwise deemed worthless by most of us.
These dedicated individuals pick through our waste in search of valuable recyclable materials which they collect, clean and sell to recycling companies.
This critical yet thankless profession is vital to waste management systems not only in South Africa but all over the world. This is their livelihood; they are waste pickers.
I stood outside my home in Durban last Tuesday evening, our rubbish was to be collected early the next morning, most of my neighbours place their black bags out the night before.
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Speaking at the closing ceremony of the event ‘Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Guidelines for the apple value chain in Balochistan’, the minister said without embracing modern practices, progress in the agriculture sector was not possible.
He said that Balochistan was the largest but the least developed province in Pakistan and Unido’s Project for Agri-food and Agro-industry Development Assistance (PAFAID) would contribute considerably to the capacity of the agriculture department and the private stakeholders in producing value-added products that could be sold at good prices.