Plain-language guides and reporting on how Zimbabwe deals with its rubbish — and what you can do about yours.
The country generates an estimated 10,000 tonnes of electronic waste a year with no mandated recycling system, but a new UN-backed pilot is trying to turn old batteries into a circular economy opportunity.
Thousands of Harare residents make a living picking through the city's dumpsites for recyclables, work that keeps the circular economy running but exposes them to danger and abuse.
Residents' groups want Lake Chivero declared a national disaster as an estimated 250 million litres of raw sewage flow into Harare's main water source every day.
Food waste in Zimbabwean households is driven as much by poor storage and planning as by leftovers, and fixing it saves money as well as landfill space.
From cargo-bike recycling networks in Lagos to AI-sorted plastic in Kenya, a wave of African startups is proving waste management doesn't need Silicon Valley budgets to work.
Most Harare households still throw everything into one bin, but simple composting and segregation at source can cut what ends up in the city's overflowing dumpsites.
A fresh push to clear vendors and filth from Harare's CBD has cabinet backing, but residents have heard the promise of a clean capital before.
From selling baled plastic to making bricks and pots out of it, waste pickers in Masvingo and beyond are proving there's real money in recycling once you stop giving the material away.
The Pomona dumpsite, blamed for decades of fires, stench and cholera outbreaks, is being turned into a waste-to-energy facility the UN is calling a continental benchmark.
Commuters and vendors at Harare's busiest transport hubs say uncollected rubbish and overflowing manholes have become a daily health hazard council has failed to address.
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