Residents who live near the Kruger National Park have resorted to recycling to avoid climate change disasters.
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK - With South Africans free from the restraints of the COVID-19 regulations, the rapid growth of visitors at the Kruger National Park has grown and it's showing, forcing South Africa’s most popular tourist destination to rethink how it manages waste.
It's a five-hour drive through the Lowveld where the roads kick up dust, thorn trees tangle and the pristine bushveld the size of Israel welcomes you with a familiar smell of untouched wilderness. Heaps of litter and excessive dumping of bottles, plastics, tins and other harmful material have been scattered along the main road leading to the park gates, rivers and streams in the Bushbuckridge Municipality in Mpumalanga.
“Look at what happened in KwaZulu-Natal. There was a flood because of climate change. But they will say I’m being controversial, but the waste took the lives of the people in KZN, were killed by the waste as it blocked their drainage system, so taking care of the waste means we are extending our life span,” Mashele said.
“The problem is that I quit school at an early age and after that I just wanted a job to provide for myself and my child,” he said. “The main challenge we face in this community is joblessness, because most young people here are unemployed, so to avoid being idle, I am involved with this project,” Mhlongo said.
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