Edith Leeuta participates Vision Net Zero Waste discussion at the Sustainability Summit 2022

South Africa’s constantly developing waste management industry is one of Africa’s most efficient, but South Africans are still dumping 108 million tonnes of waste every year – which translates to R25.2bn of missed opportunity. Fortunately, entities keen to recover value from waste have a plethora of new modalities at their disposal, such as zero waste to landfill, generating revenue from recycling streams through the circular economy model, new waste treatment and recovery technologies and legislative incentives. Waste recycling, reuse, recovery and beneficiation technologies has tremendous potential socio-economic and environmental benefits provided the waste industry innovates around more efficient waste recovery facilities.

Chaired by political analyst, Thabang Mashigo, Edith Leeuta shared the panel with Andile Tlhoaele, non-executive chairman of eWASA, Iain Gulland, chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland, Chad Robertson, CEO and co-founder of Regenize, and Telly Chauke, chief sustainability officer at Coega Development Corporation.