Community Monitors Video on Living near a Mine
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(8) Our Ideas on how to Solve the Waste Problem In Sekhukhune
-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 […]
Read More(6) What Our Constitution and Law demands and what Municipalities and Councillors say about Waste Management in Sekhukhune
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 […]
Read More(5) Our Interviews with residents on the Waste problem in Sekhukhune
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 […]
Read More(4) The Dumpster System of Collecting Waste in Sekhukhune
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 […]
Read More(3) Big Dumping Items – Baby Diapers and Beer Bottles
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 […]
Read More(2) What items are dumped and how does this affect the health of people and our environment
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 […]
Read More(1) Where and how our community dumps their waste
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 […]
Read MoreSekhukhune Community Monitors Investigation into the Waste Dumping Crisis
Draft Report 11 December 2021 This is our investigation report into the problem of waste management in our community .We are activists who live in Sekhukhune. In Sekhukhune there is a serious problem in the villages, there is a lot of waste dumping. Every corner where you go you will […]
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