National Waste Management Strategy

1. National Waste Management Strategy Obed Baloyi PETCO Member Workshop 29 April 2010

2. Outline • Legislative Background • General Approach of the Waste Act • Scope of the NWMS • Structure of NWMS • Toolbox of measures • Cross cutting Issues • Development Process

3. LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND Constitution, 1996 National Environmental ManagementAct (1998) White Paper on IP&WM NEM: Waste Act, 2008 Waste Regulations

4. GENERAL APPROACH OF THE ACT • The Waste Act adopts the waste hierarchy as a national approach to waste management

5. Scope of NWMS • Covers waste and waste management measures as defined by Act • Deals with general, commercial and industrial waste streams, including hazardous waste, healthcare risk waste and waste streams from agriculture (including pesticides), mining and power generation • Exclusions • Nuclear waste, which is the subject of a separate policy exercise under DME • Pollution, except for related fields of environmental impact management and remediation where these relate to waste products • Air quality management and waste water and industrial effluent management, which are the subjects of detailed policy and regulatory processes in their own right • Water quality issues, except in relation to the location and management of waste disposal and landfill sites • Act requires Minister to review strategy at intervals of not more than five years • Framework within which more detailed plans will be drawn up by national departments, provinces and municipalities • Must provide sufficient guidance without being prescriptive

6. Overall approach • Approach is designed to ensure that the strategy: • is relevant to the overall priorities of government, including poverty eradication, job creation and economic growth • follows an integrated, lifecycle and waste hierarchy approach to managing waste • adopts a flexible approach to the use of appropriate regulatory instruments • is mainstreamed within the intergovernmental systems • is ultimately actionable through a set of realistic targets and steps

7. Structure of NWMS • Background • Sets out overall socio-economic context, policy framework, waste status quo, goals and objectives of NWMS • Overall strategy • Describes consensual regulatory model • Unpacks strategy for each stage of waste hierarchy • Instruments for implementing strategy • Describes tool box of regulatory, economic and fiscal instruments for implementing NWMS • Responding to waste category challenges • Applies tool box to main waste categories and challenges • Implementation mechanisms • Describes roles & responsibilities, and cross cutting programmes for capacity building, planning, compliance and enforcement, international obligations, education and awareness • Action plan with responsibilities and timeframes

8. Tool box of measures • Norms and standards • In addition to waste services, develop and issue standards for each stage of waste hierarchy • Strategic use of SA Technical Infrastructure, combined with dedicated DEA technical capacity • Waste classification and categorisation • Issue as norms and standards • Set standards for storage, transport, treatment, processing and disposal of each class and category • Waste information system • Ensure universal compliance, expand to cover all waste flows • Public access to information • Integrate different data systems using new IT platform

9. Toolbox of measures • Industry waste management plans • Five year programme to target key sectors • Cascade from sector down to site level • Create incentives for well organised proactive industries through easing regulatory burden • Listing and licensing • Expedite administrative process & establish integrated database with provinces • Acceptable use categories to certify compliance with norms and standards, rather than licensing • Set up systems for integrated and multiple licensing • Priority wastes • Establish forum with DTI • Apply to asbestos, mercury, PCBs and other POPs • Extended producer responsibility • Issue guidelines, pilot application with batteries, CFLs

10. Toolbox of measures • Economic instruments • Sort out pricing of waste services • Criteria and short list of instruments proposed • Do further research into basket of recommended instruments • Fiscal instruments • Full cost accounting • Cost reflective tariffs • Explore volumetric charging • Free basic services policy • Targeted use of MIG • Project development fund • Investigate fund to support expansion of waste services

11. Cross-cutting issues • IWMPs • Finalise guidelines, issue regulations • Compliance & enforcement • EMIs to do compliance monitoring and enforcement i.t.o. Ch 7 of NEMA • Roll out EMIs to municipal level and create additional capacity for Waste Act • System of national, provincial and local fora for WMOs

12. Cross-cutting issues • Education, advocacy and awareness • Overhaul cleanest town competition • Use Indalo Yethu to roll out countrywide awareness programme • Creatively introduce waste issues into school curriculum • Capacity building • National and provincial capacity for IWMPs, EMIs, development of norms & standards, licensing, remediation, industry regulation, information management • Countrywide LG capacity programme to include policies, guidelines, training, expert placements • Cooperative governance • Use existing structures • Set up WMO mechanisms, with separate national forum • Set up mechanisms with the DTI and Treasury

13. Monitoring & evaluation • Industry to report on targets set in IndWMPs • National & provincial performance reports on IWMPs to MECs & Minister by 31 May each year • Municipal reports i.t.o. MSA to include info on implementation of municipal IWMP • Provinces to consolidate municipal reports, submit to DEA for publication in DEA annual report • Detailed indicators and targets set for each goal and objective of NWMS • Set up dedicated capacity to track and report on indicators • Issue guidelines for municipal performance indicators

14. Development Process

15. Any Questions or Comments?