Economics And Waste

The CSIR is the implementing partner for the Municipal Capability & Partnership Programme (MCPP). With a focus on strengthening municipal governance capability, the CSIR enables the collaboration of industry and government stakeholders to support service delivery and sustainable development. Cont...

Food loss and waste are issues of global concern, with one-third of all food produced for human consumption estimated to be lost or wasted. This study supports South Africa’s domestication of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 by generating local, reliable scientific data and evidence on foo...

South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), the CSIR and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) partnered to enhance municipal solid waste management in South Africa. During this collaboration, local mu...

Managing domestic waste in South Africa is accompanied by several challenges. The CSIR-developed Municipal Waste Management – Good Practices Toolkit showcases good practice initiatives by South African municipalities that have resulted in improvements towards the management of waste in communitie...

The CSIR has developed a Decision Support Tool to assess the costs and benefits of alternative approaches to implementing municipal waste separation at source, including financial costs and benefits and socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The Tool can be used by municipal waste management de...

This project pilot evaluated the roll-out of waste separation at source in two communities (middle to high-income and low-income) in the Newcastle Municipality in KZN. The role of the CSIR was to provide expert advice and document the lessons learnt. The project culminated in developing a guideli...

This study aimed to understand the root causes for the dominance of landfilling as a waste management option in South Africa and to identify relevant solutions for addressing the issues and increasing the diversion of waste from landfills toward alternative waste management options. The focus was...