By Patrick Dowling, WESSA: Western Cape Regional Membership Beyond the clamour around who’s to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of day zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, the drought, now...
For more than 100 years, the world has been discarding its unwanted waste in landfill sites but according to experts landfill mining may be the next big thing in dealing with this issue. While landfill remediation measures are costly and...
According to a recent United Nation’s report, more than half of global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa. “This projected growth may pose the greatest threat globally to climate change and other looming...
As one of the most progressive municipalities in South Africa, the City of Tshwane Municipality is engaged in comprehensive developments in infrastructure, city planning, transport development and integrated planning. IMIESA looks at some of...
In 2008, 31% of Québec’s municipal wastewater sludge ended up in landfills. By 2020, Quebec wants to divert all residual materials from landfills in order to recycle, produce energy or dispose of the waste, in that order. To reach this goal,...
