Economics And Waste

Municipality capability and partnership programme: Collaborating for service delivery and development impact

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...

Increasing reliable, scientific data on food loses and waste in South Africa

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 African municipal waste management systems: challenges and solutions

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...

The SASCOST Model: A decision support tool for implementing municipal waste separation at source

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...

Incentives for municipalities to divert waste from landfills in South Africa

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...

Project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to implement and scale circular solutions to plastic pollution in South Africa

An ambitious, five-year project aims to transform plastic packaging in the food and beverage sector in South Africa in a bid to cut down on plastic pollution. Cape Town (30 November 2023). The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and WWF South Africa are spearheading a five-...

CSIR researchers put plastics in spotlight at International Conference on Life Cycle Management in France

International Conference on Life Cycle Management in France Senior researcher, Dr Valentina Russo, and researcher, Taahira Goga, from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), participated in one of the fastest-growing forums for the exchange of knowledge on environmental, econom...