Driving force |
Pressure |
State |
Impact |
Response |
| Informal
settlements |
- Overcrowding
- Inadequate service delivery
- Poverty
- Unmanaged waste
|
- Illegal dumping, littering and runoff in the southern part
of Jhb near Palm Springs west of Orange Farm.
- Illegal dumping in
settlements around Ennerdale and Lenasia.
- Illegal dumping and litter in Freedom Park, Bushkoppies area
southeast of Soweto, Central and northern parts of Soweto .
- Scrapyards to West of Soweto near Doornkop
- West of Roodepoort in the Davidsonville area inadequate
refuse removal, littering and sewage problems.
- Unmanaged waste and overflowing sewage systems in Alexandra
- Inadequate refuse removal services, sewers and services
create land pollution in the north in vacantly of Zevenfontein and Diepsloot settlements
|
- Blocked sewerage systems
- Illegal dumping
- Littering
- Burning of refuse creating air pollution
- Increase in pest and related diseases.
- Increase in diarrhoea and skin diseases.
|
A reduction in population growth,
better service provision throughout Greater Jhb, especially in the poor areas, and
a higher level of environmental awareness is needed. |
| CBD |
- Overcrowding
- Poverty
- Informal businesses
- Overloading of infrastructure
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Informal traders
|
- Informal settlements in CBD create litter, illegal dumping,
waste water.
|
|
|
| Waste disposal sites |
|
- Landfill sites Kya-sands (north of Randburg), Linbro Park
(north Alexandra), Robinson Deep (between Roodepoort and Soweto), Marie Louise (south of
Jhb CBD), Goudkoppies (southeast of Soweto and Ennerdale (west of Ennerdale).
- State of landfill sites unknown.
|
|
- The whole of Greater Jhb, especially the landfill sites need
to adopt a sustainable approach to waste management, which includes waste reduction,
prevention and minimisation, separation and recycling of waste, and appropriate disposal
of litter, in order to minimise land pollution and improve the quality of the urban
environment.
|
| Mining activities |
|
- Mining dust, slimes dams, excavations and exposed slimes
dams south of and near to the CBD, and the mining belt from the south of Denver, southeast
of JHB through the south of Roodepoort.
- Mining activities in the west, Doornkop, Durban Roodepoort
Deep and in the northern areas around Main Reef Road.
- Mining belt running from east to west in the central part of
Greater Jhb.
|
|
- The mining zone needs to be rehabilitated, by covering all
dumps and slimes dams with indigenous grasses and reeds.
|
| Urbanisation |
- Informal settlements
- Urban decay
- Informal industries
|
- Illegal dumping in the southern parts of GJ.
- Litter throughout GJ
|
- Overflowing of sewerage
- Litter
- Illegal dumping
|
- Service provision
- Improved waste management services
|
