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11 May 2026
The City’s Urban Waste Management Directorate advises residents that refuse collection services will experience delays due to adverse weather conditions.
15 January 2026
As schools reopen, the is encouraging learners, parents, teachers and schools to place waste reduction and environmental responsibility at the centre of school life.
29 December 2025
The festive season sees more celebrations and more food on our tables, which also means more food going to waste
04 November 2025
Did you know, home composting has been shown to reduce the prevalence of pests and rats.
16 October 2025
Today on World Food Day, Thursday, 16 October, the City’s Public Empowerment and Development Department and Western Cape Government’s Community Development Worker (CDW) Programme, launched the Food Gardens Project.
07 October 2025
The City’s home composting initiative is continuing to provide residents with composting bins with new locations announced for October.
23 September 2025
The City marks the strides made to curb carbon emissions and human-induced climate change through its organic waste diversion pilot projects.
12 September 2025
The City of Cape Town’s commitment to organic waste diversion took another step forward today as residents in Khayelitsha received home composting containers
28 August 2025
Mamre, Khayelitsha, Plumstead, Tokai and Eerste Rivier residents can claim a compost bin in September. Remember, only 250 bins will be available at each session.
21 August 2025
Organic waste that ends up in landfill contributes greatly to global warming by producing methane gas
23 July 2025
The City is pleased to report that our home composting programme continues to create fertile ground for compost culture to take root in Cape Town
25 June 2025
Recently 300 containers were handed out during a Mayor’s Service Blitz event in the Kensington and Maitland communities
26 May 2025
Thanks to the combined efforts of Parks and Recreation, Roads and Infrastructure and the Energy Department, the project came to fruition in May 2025
30 April 2025
The City’s Urban Waste Management Directorate has collected over 550 000 kgs of organic food waste through its pilot projects over almost two years, to help protect the environment and free up landfill space.
08 April 2025
The City advises residents that flooding and heavy rainfall could cause delays in the refuse collection service. Various drop-off sites have also been affected.
02 April 2025
The City currently manages about 2,1 million tonnes of waste annually, with about 31,53% of this waste currently diverted from landfill
04 February 2025
About 2,5 million litres to 3,5 million litres of drinking water will be saved daily as treated effluent connections are commissioned at a number of City facilities.
21 January 2025
PSHB sighting in Durbanville
20 December 2024
The City of Cape Town is calling on residents to please be on the lookout for any trees on their properties or at various parks and conservation areas these holidays
19 December 2024
Hotel Verde’s journey to achieving Net Zero Waste was guided by two core strategies - sustainable purchasing policy and waste separation and composting.
18 December 2024
A PSHB beetle infestation was first recorded in Oldenland Road, Somerset West, in an ailing London plane in March 2019.
This festive season let’s all work together to not let food go to waste so we can help protect ourselves from its negative effects in terms of climate change.
13 December 2024
The City of Cape Town is offering a free training session about the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) to all members of the public, landowners and businesses that handle trees and plant material
28 November 2024
#SpringCleanCT campaign
28 August 2024
Residents are advised that refuse collection delays are expected for the rest of the week due to flooding.
11 July 2024
Unfortunately, widespread disruption to the City’s waste management system and service delays are expected for the rest of the week due to storm impacts.
10 July 2024
Flooding is hindering the movement and operation of waste compactors and collection teams throughout the city.
30 May 2024
The City of Cape Town is offering a free training session about the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB).
The City of Cape Town wants to inform Philippi residents that the Urban Waste Management Directorate unfortunately could not empty refuse bins yesterday.
28 May 2024
The better. bellville. together. is a City-funded place-making initiative and a pioneering endeavour dedicated to revitalising the Bellville region.
14 May 2024
The City of Cape Town is offering a free training session about the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) to formal and informal businesses that handle trees and plant material.
06 May 2024
They launched the Lingomso ‘Our Future’ project aimed to help school children enhance their creativity and improve communication and motor skills.
03 May 2024
With the alarming rate at which organic waste is filling up landfills and contributing to climate change.
24 April 2024
This year, the City of Cape Town's Urban Waste Management Directorate would like to use the platform of Stop Food Waste Day to highlight the top ways to reduce food waste
19 April 2024
The City was first notified of a possible infested tree in Alphen yesterday, 18 April 2024.
26 March 2024
The City of Cape Town wants to inform residents that trees infested with the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) have been discovered in Penhill, Eerste River.
13 March 2024
The City of Cape Town is offering free training sessions about the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) to formal and informal businesses, which handle trees and plant material
15 February 2024
The PSHB poses a serious threat to Cape Town's urban forest as infested trees have to be chipped. Importantly, the use of pesticides and fungicides have not proven effective at eradicating PSHB from infected trees.
28 January 2024
The City of Cape Town’s Urban Waste Management Directorate would like to urge residents to explore composting and food gardening in 2024 to help divert food waste from landfills.
19 December 2023
The City of Cape Town is urging residents of Cape Town to join in the effort to reduce food waste during the upcoming Christmas celebrations
21 November 2023
The City of Cape Town is offering free training sessions about the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) to formal and informal businesses which handle trees and plant material
03 September 2023
The City of Cape Town is continuing to distribute home composting containers to residents this financial year.
26 April 2023
Promoting home composting is a useful tactic the City is using to reduce emissions from landfills
04 April 2023
The City of Cape Town has issued a list of 28 recommended trees for those residents who want to replace trees on their properties that are infested with the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) beetle.
14 March 2023
The PSHB poses a serious threat to Cape Town's urban forest as infested trees have to be chipped.
10 March 2023
The City of Cape Town is calling on residents to participate in a voluntary tree replacement initiative as we are busy removing beetle infested trees from public owned land
07 March 2023
Tomorrow, 8 March 2023, the City of Cape Town will commence with the removal of Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) infested trees from City-owned land
06 March 2023
The intention is to educate private businesses on how to identify infested trees, and manage and transport beetle infested biomass to prevent the spread of the pest as far as possible.
28 February 2023
The City of Cape Town is offering free training sessions about the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) to formal and informal businesses
22 February 2023
This project was initiated to address the dual challenges of poverty and illegal dumping that are both prevalent in the area
7 August - 11 September 2026, Vasco Estate (Goodwood)
The Recreation and Parks Department is responsible for 201 Civic Centres, including Community Halls, Centres, Recreation Hubs and Multi-purpose centres around the metro.
The City of Cape Town today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA), establishing a multi-year strategic partnership to expand skills development
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The Killarney Drop-off facility accepts clean, garage or garden waste, recyclables and ru...
3 August - 4 September 2026
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