Africa’s Biggest Landfill Site: The Case Of Bisasar Road

[polly7]

By Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife

Source: Le Monde DiplomatiqueSunday, April 29, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/africa-s-biggest-landfill-site-the-case-of-bisasar-road-by-patrick-bond

Bisasar Road is Africa’s largest landfill site, and one of only three landfill sites in Durban with a full permit. It was opened for business in 1980 under South Africa’s apartheid regime. The Group Areas Act, a crucial pillar of the segregation agenda, meant that Bisasar Road would ‘import’ waste from privileged white areas to impoverished and working-class black areas deprived of basic human rights.

But there are concerns about emissions: South African corporations and government agencies have had a recent history of attempted abuse of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), (http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/me...) one of the "flexibility" mechanisms defined in the Kyoto Protocol (IPCC, 2007). And in the case of the Bisasar Road landfill, the CDM was successfully contravened.

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[tabatha]

1. That is just one of many terrifying toxic problems in SA.

People living near some of the many mine dumps, with toxic radioactive dust during wind storms.

Old gold mines filling with water, that becomes toxic and acidic, threatening buildings all over the Rand, as the water spills out of the filled mines.

A nightmare - I have always maintained that the country would have been better off without "civilization" -and of course, the indigenous people who harmed the land the least pay the highest price under industrialization.

http://www.environment.co.za/acid-mine-drainage-amd/

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/toxic-mine-dumps-threaten-joburg-1.1172190

[polly7]

2. Thank you Tabatha, very good post and articles. nt.