Blogs

At EnviroServ, a SUEZ company, sustainability is not simply a commitment — it’s a measurable outcome. Our recent collaboration with a major client in the Food and Beverage sector in the Western Cape demonstrates how partnership, expertise, and innovation can deliver outstanding results.

In the waste management industry, enterprise development is more than a compliance requirement — it is a catalyst for building resilient supply chains, unlocking social value, and advancing environmental goals. At EnviroServ, ESG and sustainability are not peripheral concepts but guiding principles that shape how we operate, how we partner, and how we contribute to society.

At EnviroServ, a SUEZ company, we see corporate social investment as a strategic responsibility. Businesses today have the power and the duty to shape resilient, inclusive, and sustainable communities. Arbour Week is one way we turn that responsibility into action.

EnviroServ has yet again proven that it is a responsible corporate citizen. We're proud to be part of the team helping rebuild the NSRI Hout Bay rescue station — a vital resource in one of South Africa’s busiest marine zones.

At EnviroServ, we take pride in marking World Wetlands Day in a way that reflects our ongoing commitment to sustainability and the circular economy. Rather than relying on large posters and flashy campaigns, we believe in taking meaningful action that brings stakeholders together to clean and protect our precious water ecosystems — from oceans to rivers, wetlands, and stormwater systems.

On 13 January 2025, the Department of Basic Education in South Africa announced the highly anticipated 2024 Matric results, and we are thrilled to celebrate the success of Vulumzi Secondary School in the Eastern Cape, one of the schools supported by EnviroServ.

The first week of September marks Arbour Week in South Africa, when citizens are encouraged to plant indigenous trees.

A total of 205 school children from 41 schools around the country will receive much-needed school uniforms from EnviroServ in 2024 - 80 from Gqeberha, 80 in Etwatwa and 45 from schools in and around Phomolong.

By Zingisa Mabangula
A chilly, rainy day in Nelson Mandela Bay did not young and old from flocking to Vulumzi Senior Secondary School in honour of Mandela Day to participate in a 5km run.

By Zingisa Mabangula
The Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality is in the grip of a prolonged drought which has disrupted life for residents, who are compelled to find innovative ways adapt, and EnviroServ Waste Management has joined arms with partners to seek solutions.

On Friday 16 June 2023, Etwatwa Ward 109’s economic development sector hosted a public market day to showcase some of the products and services which can be procured within the bustling township. No less than 12 businesses within the Ward marketed their services to over 300 people who attended.

June is Youth Month in South Africa and EnviroServ Waste Management is opening doors for 65 unemployed youth, giving them training to equip them with skills which will help make them more employable.

Just over three years ago, a local, Nomkhiso Ntinga of Imvelo Bloomings was awarded the grass cutting contract at EnviroServ’s Shongweni waste management facility. In the ensuing years, she has offered a great service, ensuring her employees’ work is representative of her brand. The site team is pleased with her service and approach to her work.

EnviroServ is committed to uplifting the communities around our facilities, something the company does in a number of different ways.

5 February 2023 was a day full of smiles, pride and joy in Motherwell, Eastern Cape. Residents of Ward 59, one of the wards adjacent to the Aloes landfill site honoured and celebrated the achievements of the matric class of 2022. The celebratory event was held at Khulile Primary School.

from left. Mr. Nkambule (Wetland Practitioner), Mr. Ndlamlenze (Educator form Quantum Senior Secondary School), Mr. Kopayi (EWM Partners invited in the day’s activities included EnviroServ, government departments such as GDARD , local community stakeholders including Ward Councillor, Cllr Madihlaba and 3 local schools (Quantum Senior Secondary School, Sazakhele Primary school and W.J.

Learning and Development is a key component in addressing and promoting gender equality to ensure that women have access to opportunities to affirm their role and contribution in all spheres of society including the workplace.

Vulumzi Senior Secondary honours top teachers, learners }

While EnviroServ does good on a daily basis, we take this month in particular to highlight some of our efforts towards building a better South Africa.

Since 2014, EnviroServ’s Dress a Learner programme has clothed more than 3 000 needy learners in the communities around our operations.

EnviroServ Waste Management has assisted the Khulanathi Buy Back Centre in Port Elizabeth with equipment and funding to further the community based depot where waste collectors can sell recyclable waste such as paper, plastic, cans and glass to recycling companies.

The Holfontein community adjacent to the Holfontein landfill site has always been a reminder of how much work our government still has to do to address societal imbalances.

The impact of the pandemic on ordinary South Africans is immeasurable. Small businesses have suffered and those that are still in existence continue to suffer, barely meeting targets.

EnviroServ believes that to change our beautiful country for the better, we all need to play our part and have rolled up our sleeves to make a difference to the quality of education in the country’s public schools.

- an opportunity for each of us to live out the values that our great former president championed throughout his remarkable life, by giving up 67 minutes of our own time to make the world a better place.

EnviroServ has assisted seven ladies from the Daveyton and Etwatwa townships with the opportunity to showcase their sewing work to the world at an Italian art conference.

In response to community stakeholder concerns that learners were staying absent from school due to a lack of school uniforms, EnviroServ launched the Dress a Learner programme in 2013.