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Information on the amount of general waste
produced per capita per year is not routinely collected in South
Africa at this time and the information portrayed here is therefore
from a once off study conducted as part of a baseline assessment in
preparation for the development of a National Waste Management
Strategy (DWAF,
1998).
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| Assessment of
Data |
Mpumalanga Province contributes 9% of South
Africa's general waste stream and although the province generates
the fourth highest volume of general waste in the country, it has
the third highest per capita waste generation of 1.37 m3
/ capita / year, higher than the national average of 1.04
m3 /
capita / year. The volume of waste generated (m3 / year) per province in South
Africa is displayed in the table below (DWAF, 1998; Stats SA,
2002).
| Province |
General Waste
(m3/a) |
% per province |
Population (1996 Census) |
Per capita waste
generation |
| Mpumalanga |
3,831,000 |
9.1 |
2,800,711 |
1.37 |
| Eastern Cape |
2,281,000 |
5.4 |
6,302,525 |
0.36 |
| Free State |
1,675,000 |
4.0 |
2,633,504 |
0.64 |
| Gauteng |
17,899,000 |
42.4 |
7,348,423 |
2.44 |
| KwaZulu-Natal |
4,174,000 |
9.9 |
8,417,021 |
0.50 |
| North West |
1,625,000 |
3.8 |
3,354,825 |
0.48 |
| Northern Cape |
733,000 |
1.7 |
840,321 |
0.87 |
| Northern |
1,470,000 |
3.5 |
4,929,368 |
0.30 |
| Western Cape |
8,543,000 |
20.2 |
3,956,875 |
2.16 |
| TOTAL |
42,230,000 |
100% |
40,583,573 |
1.04 |
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