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29 June 2026
The City has produced a SOEC report every five years since 2003, providing residents, industries, and potential investors with an evidence base for energy and climate planning on the back of emerging trends, complex realities and opportunities related to our metro’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
10 April 2026
These synergies have also generated over R155 million in financial benefits and created 411 jobs across the economy
29 January 2026
In commemoration of the day, the City of Cape Town is highlighting the measurable climate and financial benefits achieved through its landfill gas extraction and utilisation projects.
29 December 2025
The festive season sees more celebrations and more food on our tables, which also means more food going to waste
15 October 2025
Travel demand management is a collection of programmes, techniques and policies aimed at influencing the travel choices people make
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.
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
11 June 2025
On Wednesday, 4 June 2025, various stakeholders hosted a plenary session to help raise awareness on the Integrated Waste Management By-Law.
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.
18 December 2024
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.
15 November 2024
The City’s Urban Waste Management Directorate is optimistic about the future of an innovative waste-to-energy project run by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT)
15 August 2024
The City’s Energy and Water and Sanitation directorates recently completed a 990kWp renewable energy project at the Kraaifontein Wastewater Treatment Plant.
15 July 2024
We welcome this initial return of R36m from our first carbon credit auction.
25 June 2024
The event will also involve a Waste-savvy Market where SMMEs will exhibit a variety of products made using recycled material.
03 May 2024
With the alarming rate at which organic waste is filling up landfills and contributing to climate change.
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.
20 December 2023
Recent years have borne witness to an alarming surge in climate-related catastrophes.
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
17 November 2023
The City of Cape Town has received an A-rating for climate action and transparency.
01 November 2023
The City has decided to undertake another round of awareness and education efforts to garner a better response to the recent directive for businesses to reduce organic waste.
12 October 2023
A business case for the electrification of municipal vehicle fleets was recently developed by the City’s partner GreenCape, who has done a case study on the three year Electric Vehicle (EV) pilot project.
03 September 2023
The City of Cape Town is continuing to distribute home composting containers to residents this financial year.
21 July 2023
The Bracken Nature Reserve Visitor Education Centre has achieved a 5-star rating from the Green Building Council South Africa.
05 May 2023
This could be a game-changer for Cape Town's food and beverage sector, the environment, and the economy at large.
26 April 2023
Promoting home composting is a useful tactic the City is using to reduce emissions from landfills
17 February 2023
STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S MAYORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT, ALDERMAN GRANT TWIGG
22 December 2022
This call to action comes as it’s been determined that landfill gas is produced when food waste decomposes at landfill. This gas largely consists of methane, the global warming potential of which is around 25 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. It has been established that, if world food wastage were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas contributor in the world.
24 November 2022
We are proud to be one of only 122 cities across the world to have been awarded this top honour.
10 November 2022
The City of Cape Town would like to remind businesses such as restaurants, hotels and retailers that their plans for reducing and eventually eliminating organic waste were due on 31 October 2022.
29 September 2022
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 29 September as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.
22 September 2022
Cape Town has a very robust private organic waste processing sector offering many alternatives to landfilling
04 September 2022
The City of Cape Town’s dual efforts to reduce emissions associated with landfill sites and reduce reliance on Eskom continues to gather pace.
29 July 2022
The carbon credits system is a mechanism that encourages developing countries such as South Africa to reduce emissions
15 June 2022
The City of Cape Town has been rated as the most sustainable City in Africa according to the Corporate Knights Sustainability Cities Index report
28 May 2022
The City of Cape Town’s 4th Cape Town State of Energy and Carbon 2021 Report has been launched.
16 March 2022
The City of Cape Town is nearing the production of electricity from landfill gas – a project known as “Waste to Energy”.
02 February 2022
STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S MAYORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR URBAN MOBILITY, COUNCILLOR ROB QUINTAS
13 January 2022
The City of Cape Town has been awarded a Medal of Honour in the fifth Guangzhou International Awards for Urban Innovation
03 December 2021
The compact home is the epitome of the City’s vision for its energy future
30 November 2021
The CDP annually scores cities from A to D based on their climate change response disclosure
07 October 2021
A milestone has been achieved for Cape Town and its people with the launch of the City of Cape Town’s Climate Change Action Plan today
Improving road safety and making the city accessible to as many people as possible is at the centre of our service delivery priorities
16 September 2021
The City of Cape Town is proud to announce that it has received Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for three of its municipal buildings
22 July 2021
The City of Cape Town’s Climate Change Strategy is now available online as a digital publication on the City’s website
14 July 2021
The City is already a leader in its climate actions, in efforts to diversify its energy supply, in energy efficiency and in sound governance and prudent financial management
08 June 2021
The City of Cape Town is pleased to announce that the Solid Waste Department’s Landfill Gas Extraction and Utilisation Project, currently in operation at the Coastal Park landfill, has earned us our first carbon credits from the UN-approved Clean Development Mechanism (CDM
05 June 2021
In honour of World Environment Day 2021, the City of Cape Town urges residents, neighbourhoods, businesses, churches and communities to support global efforts to tackle climate change
28 May 2021
The compact home is the epitome of the City’s vision for a more climate resilient and carbon neutral future
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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