About the Indaba

The Gauteng Waste Indaba addresses critical waste management challenges while actively identifying opportunities for innovation, investment, and long-term economic growth. Moving beyond routine conference dialogue, the Indaba is structured around action-oriented outcomes and collaborative commitments.

Core Focus Areas
  • Improving Municipal Systems: Modernising collection models, servicing informal settlements, and optimising landfill capacity.
  • Governance & Compliance: Strengthening environmental enforcement, by-law implementation, and licensing standards.
  • Accelerating the Circular Economy: Shifting from conventional disposal to material recovery, reuse, and technology integration.
  • Unlocking Infrastructure Investment: Connecting bankable waste projects with development finance and private investors.
  • Enterprise & Job Creation: Supporting small businesses, cooperatives, and youth entrepreneurs within the waste economy.
  • Strategic Partnerships: Building sustainable collaborative networks across public, private, and community sectors.
Event Objectives
  • Assess Systemic Status: Establish a clear, shared understanding of the state of waste management and landfill capacity across Gauteng.
  • Foster Collaboration: Build cross-sectoral alignment between municipal leadership, provincial authorities, private industry, and local communities.
  • Drive Innovation: Feature proven, scalable solutions for waste recovery, alternative treatment technologies, and waste-to-energy projects.
  • Mobilise Capital: Identify funding avenues, blended finance mechanisms, and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for sustainable infrastructure.
  • Enforce Compliance: Strengthen local governance frameworks and municipal by-law enforcement.
  • Empower Entrepreneurs: Support SME, cooperative, and youth integration into the circular economy value chain.
  • Adopt the Declaration: Conclude with the formal adoption of the Gauteng Waste Management Declaration, featuring binding, measurable commitments from all participating sectors.
Who Should Attend
  • National and provincial government leadership
  • Executive Mayors and MMCs from Gauteng municipalities
  • Development finance institutions and investors
  • Industry, recyclers, and Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs)
  • Academic and civil society stakeholders