Tonnes of Waste Landfilled at Tongaat Landfill Site
This is a general landfill site operated by Durban Solid Waste,a department of the Metropolitan Council, since September 1997. No values are available before this date. Types of waste landfilled include:

• Solid Waste (Domestic and Commercial)
• Garden Refuse
• Rubble
• Mixed Loads
• Sand etc
• Whole Tyres
• Municipal
• Polystyrene
• Light Waste

It must be noted that these tonnes have been derived by converting cubic volumes to mass and not at a weighbridge. They are thus approximate weights.

Tonnes of Waste Landfilled at Mariannhill Landfill Site
This is a large sub-regional general landfill site operated by Durban Solid Waste, a department of the Metropolitan Council, since July 1997. Types of waste landfilled include:

• Solid Domestic Waste *
• Garden Refuse *
• Rubble *
• Mixed Loads
• Condemned Foods
• Sand etc *
• Whole Tyres
• Polystyrene
• Light Waste
• Sanitary Waste
• Perishable Foods
• During the period September 1997 to April 1998 there was some diversion of "delisted" (i.e. reclassified from low hazardous) waste from the Bulbul Drive landfill site to the Mariannhill landfill site.

* denotes the wastes with the highest tonnages

	Jul-Dec 97	Jan-Jun 98	Jul-Dec 98	Jan-Jun 99
Tonnes	46642	56728	47749	50410

For statistics on the privately run hazardous landfill sites click here.