The waste-to-energy trend gaining momentum in South Africa is spreading throughout the continent and developing countries around the globe. Last week saw the opening of a new biogas plant in Athlone near Cape Town, and Ethiopia also recently opened...
South Africa’s first independent landfill gas-to-power project has begun generation in Johannesburg providing 3MW of renewable electricity. This is enough to supply more than 5,500 homes. Project developer ENERGY Systems started operations at...
Public review and comment is being encouraged by the Drakenstein Municipality for the first proposed municipal waste-to-energy plant in South Africa. Possible sites Currently, the municipality has earmarked three possible sites for the project: a...
At the recent U.N. climate change conference in Paris 40,000 people were fed daily creating more than a tonne of food waste – but that waste wasn’t wasted. At a plant about 30 kilometers south of the French capital, those plate scraps were...
