They often face hostile security guards and law-enforcement, but Joburg's waste pickers are far more helpful than you can imagine.
According to Mvuselelo Mathebula, head of Waste Policy and Regulations and COJ, the metro is working with provincial government to empower waste pickers through a number of initiatives including, finding shelter for the homeless waste pickers and creating a central picking site.
“We hope to help the Urban Surfer team to achieve this goal by sponsoring safe and reliable equipment as well as clothing and accessories to their team of 50 informal reclaimers,” says Hippo CEO Bradley du Chenne. The city also wants to bolster its roll-out of recycling bins in the suburbs so that more residents and businesses can have organised waste bins for pickers to operate easier and safer.“We want to ensure that they end up being part of the waste mainstream, especially through ‘separation at source’.As the Coj we want to register all the waste pickers within the city so we know how many there are and where they are. Once we have done that we want to provide protective clothing.
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