National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008
1 July 2009
Amendments to this Act
Draft Amendments to this Act
- National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Bill, 2017; see also the latest version of this Bill, adopted by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs on 19 June 2018
- National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Bill, 2015
Regulations
- Regulations Regarding Extended Producer Liability (5 November 2020) and Amendment of the Regulations and Notices Regarding Exteded Producer Liability (15 January 2021)
- Regulations regarding the control of the import or export of waste (21 January 2019)
- Regulations regarding the exclusion of a waste stream or a portion of a waste stream from the definition of waste (18 July 2018)
- Waste Tyre Regulations (29 September 2017)
- Regulations regarding the planning and management of residue stockpiles and residue deposits from a prospecting, mining, exploration or production operation (24 July 2015)
- Waste Classification and Management Regulations (23 August 2013)
- National Waste Information Regulations (13 August 2012)
List of waste management activities that have, or are likely to have, a detrimental effect on the environment
Exclusion of Waste Streams from the Definition of Waste
- Notice indicating the exclusion of certain waste streams or portions of waste streams from the definition of waste for beneficial use (3 February 2020)
- Consultation on applications received for the Exclusion of Waste Streams or a portion of such waste stream from the definition of waste for the purposes of beneficial use (16 August 2019)
- Notice of intention to take a decision on the application for the exclusion of a waste stream or a portion of such a waste stream for beneficial use from the Definition of Waste (3 April 2019)
- Regulations regarding the exclusion of a waste stream or a portion of a waste stream from the definition of waste (18 July 2018)
Strategies, policies and plans
- National Waste Management Strategy, 2020 (28 January 2021)
- National Policy on Thermal Treatment of General and Hazardous Waste (1 July 2009)
- The National Policy on Thermal Treatment of General and Hazardous Waste (24 July 2009)
- The National Policy for the Provision of Basic Refuse Removal Services for Indigent Households (22 June 2011)
- National Waste Management Strategy (November 2011)
- Municipal Waste Sector Plan (30 March 2012)
- National Pricing Strategy for Waste Management (11 August 2016)
National norms and standards
- The National Domestic Waste Collection Standards (21 January 2011)
- National Norms and Standards for the Disposal of Waste to Landfill (23 August 2013)
- National Norms and Standards for the Assessment of Waste for Landfill Disposal (23 August 2013)
- National standards for the scraping or recovery of motor vehicles (29 November 2013)
- National standards for the extraction, flaring or recovery of landfill gas (29 November 2013)
- National norms and standards for the storage of waste (29 November 2013)
- Norms and standards for the remediation of contaminated land and soil quality (2 May 2014)
- Norms and standards for the sorting, shredding, grinding, crushing, screening, or bailing of general waste (11 October 2017)
- National Norms and Standards for Organic Waste Composting (GN 561 in GG 44762 of 25 June 2021) – commenced from 11 February 2022 as per GN 1757 in GG 45907 of 11 February 2022.
Contaminated Land
- Framework for the Management of Contaminated Land (May 2010)
- Commencement of sections 35-41 if the Act (11 April 2014)
Waste Management Plans
- REDISA Waste Tyre Management Plan (30 November 2012) – has been withdrawn (29 September 2017)
- Notice in terms of section 28(5) of the Act for the Paper and Packaging Industry, the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Industry and the Lighting Industry to submit waste management plans (12 August 2016)
- Notice in terms of sections 28(1) and 28(5) of the Act to require the tyre industry to prepare and submit an industry waste tyre management plan to the Minister for approval (31 March 2017)
Fee Structures
Documents published in the 1998 Waste Management Series, produced by the then Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, which are still applicable
Draft Regulations and Notices
- Proposed new list of waste management activities that have or are likely to have a dterimental effect on the environment (17 March 2017)
- Draft national norms and standards for the sorting, shredding, grinding, crushing, screening or bailing of general waste (17 Mach 2017)
- Draft regulations to exclude waste streams from the definition of waste (2 June 2017)
- Consultation on the intention to consider the withdrawal of the approval for the Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan of the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (1 June 2017)
- Proposed Waste Tyre Regulations (17 August 2017)
- Proposed regulations for the control of the import or export of waste (30 October 2017)
- Call on the tyre industry to prepare and submit an industry waste tyre management plan to the Minister for approval (30 October 2017)
- Call on the paper and packaging industry, the electronic industry and the lighting industry to prepare and submit waste management plans to the Minister for approval (6 December 2017)
- Proposed regulations to exclude a waste stream or a portion of a waste stream from the definition of “waste” (12 January 2018)
- Draft norms and standards for validation of treatment efficacy and operation of a on-combustion treatment technology used to treat health care risk waste (30 April 2018)
- Proposed health care risk waste management regulations (30 April 2018)
- Consultation on the proposed industry tyre waste management plans (7 May 2018)
- Proposed amendments to the National Waste Information Regulations, 2012 (6 July 2018)
- Consultation on intention to require a person who conducts a waste management activity on the date of coming into effect of this Act, and who immediately, before that date, lawfully conducted that waste management activity under Government Notice No. 91 of 1 February 2002 to apply for a waste management licence under this Act (5 April 2019)
- Consultation on applications received for the exclusion of waste streams or a portion of such waste stream from the definition of “waste” for the purposes of beneficial use (16 August 2019)
- Draft norms and standards for organic waste composting (4 September 2019)
- Draft revised and updated National Waste Management Strategy (4 December 2019)