Whenever health care waste is discussed with people outside of the industry, the first thing that comes to mind is the illegal dumping of syringes and body parts. The media quite rightly are quick to focus on these events and we are all familiar...
Municipalities are under pressure to divert waste from landfill as required by the National Environmental Management: Waste Act (NEM:WA, Act 59 of 2008). The implementation of alternative waste management thus far has been largely on an ad hoc...
Historically, in South Africa, waste treatment technologies have focused principally on reducing the risks associated with the disposal of both general and hazardous waste at landfill sites and as a result of this there are very few viable...
Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technologies produce energy by processing solid, liquid and gaseous waste streams using either thermal, physical or biological methods. It was determined that in 2014 a waste quantity of approximately 8 212 496t would be...
