The Department of Economic Development Tourism and Environmental Affairs together with the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Environmental Affairs and the family of municipalities under Amajuba District convene a two days' workshop. This workshop is part of celebrating Pollution and Waste management week under the theme " Your Waste Your Treasure".

As part of this engagement, there are stakeholders such as big recycling companies which includes Petco, Fire Circle, Polyco, Amajuba Recycling, Mpilonhle and EWASA.

The purpose of this engagement is to raise awareness on issues relating to pollution and waste management, encouraging communities to know the benefits of keeping their environment clean and diverting their waste away from the landfill sites through innovative means such as reduction, reuse, repurpose, recycle or upcycle of their waste materials. Also, the engagement seeks to deliberate on how the small recyclers around Amajuba District may be supported to have access to the market but also on how they can remain sustainable.