Each piece of waste has the potential to pollute the environment in a different way which is why there is no single suitable waste management approach to address all types of waste. The waste management hierarchy ranks waste management options in...
Leaders in the waste and environmental management industries gathered at the Buffelsdraai Regional Landfill site in KwaZulu Natal for Landfill 2017. The KwaZulu Natal Landfill & Waste Treatment Interest Group (LaWTIG) of the Institute of Waste...
Residents living near the Shongweni landfill site claim they are still “suffering” with the toxic smell from the facility despite claims from waste management company, EnviroServ, that remedial action was taken to attend to the odour. The Highway...
South Africa’s landfill sites are home to a thriving hidden economy that saves municipalities an estimated R700 million every year. This is according to a recent study by researchers affiliated to the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security...
