updated Wed. September 4, 2024
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Highway Mail
February 7, 2018
“Customers bringing in garden refuse, builders rubble and or sand/cover material are reminded there are alternative landfills that can be used such as the Shallcross Garden Landfill site and or the Bisasar Road Landfill which is still open to these types of waste streams. Bisasar Road has not closed, butÃâà...
Highway Mail
June 13, 2017
THE Wyebank Garden Landfill Site, located on 1 Fernleigh Road, has reached its capacity and can no longer accept waste for disposal. eThekwini Municipality's head of communications, Tozi Mthethwa, said the city's Cleansing and Solid Waste Unit has in the interim converted the Wyebank site into aÃâà...
Independent Online
May 20, 2017
The tender, which was subsequently cancelled, was for running the Solid Waste Reduction Plant and Bisasar Road Landfill in Umgeni. After the report was publically released in June 2013, the city said it wouldn't pursue Mlaba because, “council didn't incur losses”. However, Nzuza said that while he wasÃâà...
Northglen News
September 15, 2016
ILLEGAL dumping along Electron Road, near the Bisasar Road Landfill Site has escalated at an alarming rate in the last few months, said Sunningdale resident, Daryn Maritz. According to Maritz, who runs a skip hire company, the illegal dumping spiraled out of control after the landfill site in SpringfieldÃâà...
Rising Sun Overport (blog)
January 28, 2016
The Bisasar Road landfill in Springfield has been downscaled after reaching its full capacity. The site, which has been in operation for the past 35 years and has accepted more than 19 million tons of waste from throughout the eThekwini region, will no longer be open to commercial customers. HoweverÃâà...
Highway Mail (blog)
January 21, 2016
The eThekwini Municipality urges people to dispose waste at other landfill sites as Bisasar Road Landfill in Springfield has been downscaled. January 21, 2016. THE eThekwini Municipality has announced that as from Monday, 18 January the Bisasar Road Landfill in Springfield has been downscaled after reaching its fullÃâà...
Daily Maverick
March 27, 2014
Going full-circle, Carver Media and municipal officials are using that very Bisasar Road dump's six methane-to-energy turbines to claim – at WWF's www.welovecities.org Durban portal – that because our municipality benefits from (a rather meagre) “7.5MWh of electricity produced from landfill waste, DurbanÃâà...
Independent Online
October 23, 2013
Should Mlaba persist with his court application, he will have to give evidence and explain, for the first time, his role in the award of the tender to reduce waste volumes at the Bisasar Road landfill site - an issue he has never been prepared to speak about in any detail before. The matter has its history in aÃâà...
Creamer Media's Engineering News
August 23, 2012
At present, most of the waste from City of Durban is disposed of at the Bisasar Road landfill site, in Springfield Park, which is reaching full capacity. When this happens, waste collection vehicles will have to travel to the Buffelsdraai landfill site about 33 km away from the city – more than double the 15 kmÃâà...
Independent Online
February 8, 2012
l Former mayor Obed Mlaba unlawfully influenced a tender for the waste volume reduction plant at the Bisasar Road Landfill site. l Non-compliance with the supply chain management regulations resulting in irregular expenditure of more than R2 billion in the past three financial years. l Treasure KrishÃâà...
