South Africa continues to rely heavily on landfill as its primary waste disposal method, a reality driven largely by cost, but one that carries significant environmental and social consequences. “Landfilling is the dominant method of disposal...
South Africa’s latest Green Drop Report is more than a dataset. It is a diagnostic of an essential national service in critical condition. Of 848 wastewater treatment works assessed, 396 are in a critical state, while only about a quarter...
Operating at the tail end of the heavily polluted Crocodile West River Catchment, Magalies Water is confronted with some of the country’s most compromised raw water matrix. But through internal control processes, science, innovation and a focus on...
For more than two decades, municipalities across South Africa’s West Coast District grappled with a mounting waste crisis: small, scattered landfill sites, many of them unlined, overfilled, and poorly controlled, were becoming both environmental...
