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Abstract
This paper reviews the influence of municipal sustainable chain management on South Africa’s recycling performance. In this study, municipal supply chain management systems are identified as one of the major factors that influence the lack of municipal solid waste services in communities (including recycling performance in South Africa). Through an in-depth analysis of secondary data and a meta-analysis of available data, this study examines the positive and negative reactions of supply chain management systems to sustainable and unsustainable approaches to municipal solid waste practices. The concept of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is used in this paper to refer to a comprehensive and efficient mechanism that integrates the municipal solid waste planning and procurement systems of the municipality. Thus, SSCM is the recommended model for addressing South Africa’s challenges in terms of services delivery, particularly the solid waste challenges, and it integrates indigenous and modern systems of waste management.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Mr Phelix Mnisi, the environmental specialist at Transnet Freight Rail, and Ms Fhumulani Ramukhwatho and Mr Tumisang Polasi, who are researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), for their invaluable support through reviews and inputs. In addition, we are very grateful to Ms Allison Lindner, a PhD candidate at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK, for her constant support. She, too, contributed greatly through reviews and the provision of literature.
Disclosure statement
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ORCID
Fannie Machete http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0274-1158