South Africa is in a waste management crisis as the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment reports in a 2023/2024 overview that 60% of landfill services sites
not being compliant with regulations. . Which means they were not sufficiently
collecting waste, sorting it, and recycling that waste, amoungst other things.
The report found that municipalities struggled enforce compliance - A total of 52
criminal cases have been opened against municipalities for non-compliant landfill
sites.