Waste collection and transport are the public face of waste management. Landfills are the backend that keeps the sector going. As South Africa adopts circular economic practices, landfills still hold a key position in the waste sector, and act as...
“In 2012, when the government approved our tyre strategy, REDISA managed to get on top of South Africa’s tyres. The country was seen as a leader in space. Now things look vastly different,’ says Stacey Jansen, director of REDISA. During their...
South Africa’s metros are racing to plug electricity gaps and meet the Waste Act’s diversion targets before 2030. Yet on the fringes of almost every city lie dozens of long-forgotten legacy dump sites — un-engineered mounds that still belch...
Landfills create leachate, a liquid that seeps from waste, which is highly hazardous and can contaminate groundwater. SRK Consulting, an international consulting firm that offers technical services to the natural resource industries, maintains that...
