Where South Africa has long been a “throwaway” culture, recycling only 10% of garbage produced, new legislation is set to inaugurate a recycling revolution, injecting as much as R50-billion into the national economy – a special report by Frances...
An illustrated lecture on Structural Drainage by Kaytech’s Julian Maastrecht has recently been accredited by SAICE for CPD. Geosynthetics have been used in subsoil drains in South Africa since 1972 and the lecture presents theoretical information...
By 2012, the capacity of the landfill site at Mpofana, near Mooi River in KwaZulu-Natal, was reaching saturation point. Having started as a local refuse site for domestic waste, mainly from the Bruntville settlement, this informal landfill could no...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is engaged in a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project based on landfill gas recovery and flaring at four of its landfills. The latest phase – Phase 3 – involved the expansion of the active LFG...
