City’s landfill sites to be turned into attractive public spaces

By Sasha Forbes
02 September 2008


The City of Cape Town’s former landfill sites in Gordon’s Bay, Swartklip, Table View and Faure will be turned into eye-catching open public spaces suitable for different activities and also to provide valuable sources of methane gas.

The cost of rehabilitating these landfill sites can be offset by converting the methane gas which is a by - product of the landfill sites into an alternative energy source.

Spokesperson for the City of Cape Town says that “the City of Cape Town is spending forty-one-million-rand in this financial year in the rehabilitation landfill sites. Over the next five years they are spending about a hundred and ten- million-rand per year.”

He also says that there is a responsibility that all closed sites are also rehabilitated, kept and ensured that they look after the environment.