Landfill and conservancy are two words not often found in the same sentence. But then the Mariannhill Landfill Conservancy in KwaZulu Natal has been breaking new ground for more than a decade now. Landfill and conservancy are two words not often found in the same sentence. But then the Mariannhill Landfill Conservancy in KwaZulu Natal has been breaking new ground for more than a decade now.While handling 500t of waste a day, Mariannhill still manages to hold the title of the only landfill in the world with conservancy status.And because the project has been registered to trade carbon credits on the world market, it could earn à22m over the next three years, saving eThekwini (Durban) municipality around R50m. It is being hailed as a unique environmental model for waste management. The project started in the mid-1990s when Durban Solid Waste (DSW) was seeking a site for a new landfill. The proposal was to locate it on land that had been bought from the Mariannhill Monastery, nort...
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