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have a uniform process of waste management,
most especially because enforcement can
sometimes be very daunting. Of-course a
centralised process of managing this waste has
its own challenges too. From what we learned,
the wastewater treatment plant was built to
manage just one tenth of what it is presently
managing, and the cost of expansion is …
humungous, and so in the face of limited
resources it also raises the question of whether
other means of managing waste by involving
more people, by involving the primary users, can
be explored … The visit, the following morning to
Algoa Bay, I found very educational. I saw young
men, old men, children, young women, people
who are from different backgrounds, coming to
do their bit to keep that beach clean. And that
for me is encouraging. The peculiarities of our
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