During the past two years, South Africa’s waste management industry has witnessed updates to the National Waste Management Act. Proper and professional waste management practices are advocated, and the implementation of environmentally conscious...
The City of Ekurhuleni scooped the top award for the best managed municipal landfill sites in Gauteng at the Waste Khoro 2016 conference held in Durban last week. The city has five operational landfill sites at Rooikraal, Weltevreden, Rietfontein,...
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...
By Frances Ringwood Municipal solid waste has not featured in the forefront of the last two State of the Nation Addresses (SONAs) of 2014 and 2015. This year, off the back of December strike action by municipal rubbish collectors in Johannesburg...
