This section sets out the definitions for this by-law unless the context indicates otherwise.

Compliance Obligations?

“Accreditation”
“Accredited service provider”
“Approved waste receptacle”
“Dailies”
“Domestic waste”
“Hazardous waste”
“Health care risk waste”
“Integrated waste management plan”
“Nuisance”
“Waste”

This chapter requires waste generators to manage their waste in a manner that does not cause harm to human health or damage to the environment.

Compliance Obligations?

If you generate waste you must investigate, assess and evaluate the impact your activities, the process or situation have on the environment. You must inform and educate employees about the environmental risks of their work and the way their tasks must be performed to avoid causing damage to the environment. You must cease or control any act which causes damage to the environment and eliminate or mitigate any source of damage to the environment.
If you conduct an activity listed in Annexure 1 of the National Waste Information Regulations 2021, then you must comply with these Regulations.
If you dispose of waste, then you must comply with the Waste Classification Management Regulations, 2013.

This chapter provides for the services rendered by the municipality and obligations of waste generators.

Compliance Obligations?

If you generate domestic waste, general business waste and dailies, such waste must be placed in an approved waste receptacle. You must ensure that animals in your control do not overturn or damage a receptacle.
An owner or occupier of a premises must ensure that no hot ash, unwrapped glass or other waste that may cause damage to the receptacle, or injure municipal waste collectors, is placed in the waste receptacle. The receptacles must be kept closed and in a clean and hygienic condition. You may not use waste receptacles for any purpose other than the storage of domestic waste, general business waste or dailies.

This chapter regulates waste minimisation and recycling.

Compliance Obligations?

If you undertake reduction, re-use, recycling or recovery of waste you must ensure that it is less harmful to the environment than disposing of such waste.

No person may generate, collect, transport, sort, store, re-use, recycle, recover or dispose waste with the intention of making profit unless it is accredited in terms of chapter 11 of the by-law, or licensed in terms of the National Environmental Management Waste Act.

The owner or occupier of premises on which recyclable waste is generated and separately stored must ensure that such waste is collected by an accredited service provider and that it is stored in a secure location, in an approved waste receptacle until it is collected. The waste receptacles must be properly closed and kept in a good condition. It must be ensured that nuisances such as odour, visual impacts and breeding of vectors do not arise. It must be ensured that the accredited service provider handles, treats or disposes of the recyclable waste at a permitted waste handling, treatment or disposal facility.

The Municipality may by way of a notice require present or future generators or holders of specified waste streams to prepare integrated waste management plans. If you are required by the municipality to prepare an integrated waste management plan then you must ensure that it at least includes the following: an assessment of the quantity and type of waste that is or will be generated; a description of the waste management services the generator will need; the full details of the site/s or area/s where waste will be generated, stored, treated or disposed of; a description of how the generator of the waste separates or intends to separate recyclable and non-recyclable material; the waste minimisation and pollution prevention practices, and plans of such waste generator; the methods of disposal or treating such waste; a reporting plan on the implementation of the integrated waste management plan;
details of the person responsible for the implementation of the integrated waste management plan; and any further information that the Municipality may in writing require.

If you generate hazardous waste or health care risk waste, then it must be ensured that such waste is collected by an accredited service provider. Such waste must be stored in a manner that does not create a nuisance or cause harm to human health or damage to the environment. Waste containers containing hazardous, or health care risk waste must not be corroded and be fit for safe storage of waste. Adequate measures must be taken to prevent accidental spillage or leakage.