South Africa and other countries ignore waste reduction in climate plan - ‘If plastic were a country, it would already be the fifth-largest emitter in the world’
for South Africa, which shows the contribution for the waste sector between 2000 and 2017.
Excluding concrete strategies to address greenhouse gas emissions from this sector is a “major oversight,” he said, “considering that the bulk of our household waste is generally organic and made up of recoverable materials, which if designed and carefully managed throughout their life cycle could in fact be part of a circular economy that contributes less GHGs than current models of ‘design to throwaway’ productions”.
“The energy sector in South Africa is highly dependent on coal as the main primary energy provider. The largest source of energy sector emissions in South Africa is the combustion of fossil fuels,” Euripidou said.
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