Closing dump sites requires working with the local communities

Dump sites, which were totally open, and landfills, contributed to climate change, by generating significant amounts of methane, which is a greenhouse gas. So pointed out Suez Recycling and Recovery (part of the France-based multinational Suez group) CEO Stephane Heddesheimer. He was addressing the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) conference, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Monday. In many emerging countries most waste still ended up in open dump sites. ISWA had developed a plan to close the biggest of these dump sites around the world.