Six years ago, the Visserhoek landfill site in Cape Town was granted authorisation to extend its lifespan to provide an extra six to nine years of landfill capacity. This extension was granted provided the City of Cape Town develop a master plan...
Food waste is one of the biggest contributors to landfills. South Africa is running out of usable landfill airspace, and the space itself comes at a premium. By diverting food waste from landfills using onsite technologies, such as digesters,...
“We remain on track to meet our 11-point action plan as agreed with the DEA,” Dean Thompson, EnviroServ’s CEO said, following reports of complaints by Shongweni residents living downwind of the landfill. He added that a review of all waste streams...
The small-scale farmers who turned illegal dumping sites in Marlboro and Lenin in the City of Johannesburg’s Region E into productive commercial food gardens are scaling up to even greater heights. Produce grown by these farmers – many of them...
