The waste pickers can trade in their collected waste materials for food, clothing and other essential items at the six-year-old local recycling center. It includes the towns of Bedfordview, Benoni. The region extends from Alberton in the west to Springs in the east, and south down to Nigel. It is the urban eastern part of Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. Others have established a social recycling project called Re-Trade that supports around 60 informal waste pickers. The East Rand is a major urban area located in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The garden has created five jobs in the community. Xolani Siwa, for instance, turned a former illegal dumpsite into a vegetable garden that has also been helping to feed those who've lost their jobs due to Covid-19. In Walmer Township, also in Nelson Mandela Bay, residents have taken matters into their own hands. A quarter of a decade after the end of Apartheid, the state has failed to bring water, electricity, as well as waste and sewage treatment to many townships. Locals have been asking the government for proper waste disposal and storage for years - to no avail. In Motherwell, a township in Nelson Mandela Bay on South Africa's Eastern Cape, it's not unusual to see children playing amongst piles of dangerous, illegally dumped waste. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video South Africa: Townships & the war on waste

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