Community Monitors Video on Living near a Mine

-The municipal council is by law responsible to make a waste management plan and to implement the plan. They should do this urgently, -The big supper markets as well as the spaza shops are also responsible because they make money buy  selling  goods wrapped in plastic , or they don’t […]

A Community Monitors Investigation into the Waste Crisis in Sekhukhune, October – November 2021 The Constitution and the Law The Constitution of South Africa, in the Bill of Rights in section 24 , Chapter 2, of  our country says that we have the right to live in an environment that […]

A Community Monitors Investigation into the Waste Crisis in Sekhukhune, October – November 2021 Interviews with family and neigbours Each of the monitors in our team spoke with family and neighbours  about they dumping . Here is a summary of what they said ·Why we dump All of them said […]

A Community Monitors Investigation into the Waste Crisis in Sekhukhune, October – November 2021 The only waste collection system that we see is Dumpsters on the main rood . Trucks collect the waste from these dumpsters and and take them to landfills . We investigated to check  why this system […]

A Community Monitors Investigation into the Waste Crisis in Sekhukhune, October – November 2021 In our investigation we observed two items that made up a large part of the items dumped . This was Diapers and Bottles . We realised that the large amounts of dumping these items , was […]

A Community Monitors Investigation into the Waste Crisis in Sekhukhune, October – November 2021 . What Items are dumped ? Waste from Homes – Plastic bottles (water, cold drinks , juices, cooking oil bottles) -Plastic ( detergents, medicines and cosmetics, toothpaste tubes) –Plastic bags from supermarkets and spaza shops –Milk […]

We went around our villages and took geo located photos with our cell phones , to show how and where people got rid of their waste . We used these pictures and the map to help us understand what people dumped and how this would affect their health and the […]