The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) recently awarded a grant to MBHE African Power, a South African renewable energy project developer, to support a waste-to-energy project in the Drakenstein Municipality in the Western Cape. The objective...
It is alleged that the City of Cape Town is spending approximately half a million rand a year on maintaining an old landfill site. The dump site, located beneath the popular kite-surfing beach of Witsands between Kommetjie and Scarborough, was used...
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s officially opened the revamped Kraggakamma Drop-off Site following massive work that has cost the institution more than R4.2 million. First of its kind in the Province, the site will provide a drop-off...
Landfill juice. Garbage water. Leachate. Whatever you call it, it can be a problem for landfill operators. Managing leachate can be as high as 30% of a landfill’s operating costs. Before a treatment method can be determined, it’s important to first...