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ContentsMining waste .................................................................................76Salvagers ........................................................................................76Enforcement ..................................................................................77Contaminated land ........................................................................77Chapter 4: The toxic cradle of production .......................................................79Making and wasting ...................................................................................79Paint it green ........................................................................................81Conspicuous consumption ...................................................................87The sacrifice to mining ...............................................................................88Abandoned mines .................................................................................90Laying waste to water ...........................................................................91Platinum: more precious than people ....................................................96Steeling the future ......................................................................................98Chemicals and plastic ...............................................................................103The plastics industry ...........................................................................108Plastic and packaging ..........................................................................113Aluminium ...............................................................................................119Cement kilns ............................................................................................122Chapter 5: Modernising Municipal Waste .....................................................127Inside the municipal waste stream .............................................................127Creating waste bodies .........................................................................130The Minimum Requirements for Sanitary Landfills ............................133Chapter 6: Down at the dumps .....................................................................137eThekwini .................................................................................................138Bisasar Road .......................................................................................139The calculus of cost ......................................................................139- 6 - groundWork - Wasting the Nation
ContentsCDM and local struggles ....................................................................144The smell from Clare Estate ........................................................144Kennedy Road ............................................................................146Rival authority: uMgungundlovu and Msunduzi .....................................151New England Road ............................................................................153Sobantu ......................................................................................156Waste pickers ..............................................................................157The Vaal Triangle .....................................................................................158Illegal dumping in Sebokeng .............................................................161Boitshepi ...........................................................................................162Palm Springs ......................................................................................165Muscling in on the pickings at Sasolburg ...........................................167Under neo-liberal orders ..........................................................................172Privatising …......................................................................................174… labour ....................................................................................174… skills .......................................................................................175… landfills ..................................................................................176… ‘green’ ....................................................................................176Chapter 7: The question of the future ..........................................................179Greening and the city ..............................................................................183Wasting the Nation - groundWork - 7 -
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