Waste Management, Effect On The Environment
 Waste Management activities that have, or likely to have a detrimental effect on the environment.
The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs in terms of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act of 2008 published a list of Waste Management Activities that have, or are, likely to have a detrimental effect on the environment.
In the Schedule attached to the list, “construction” means the building, erection, establishment, alteration or expansion of a facility, structure or infrastructure that is necessary for the undertaking of a listed activity.
Listed operations fall into the following two categories:
Category A
A person wishing to commence, or undertake an activity listed under this category is required to get an environmental impact assessment process as stipulated in the environmental assessment regulations made in accordance with the Act as part of a waste management licence application.
In general terms the listed operations in Category A relate to storage, reuse, recycling and recovery, treatment and disposal of waste. Storage, treatment and processing of animal waste and the construction, expansion or decommissioning of facilities and associated structures and infrastructure linked to the activities listed.
Category B
A person wishing to commence, or undertake an activity listed under this category is required to get an environmental impact assessment process as stipulated in the environmental assessment regulations made in accordance with the Act as part of a waste management licence application.
The listed operations in Category B relate to the storage, reuse, recycling recovery, treatment, disposal on land of mainly HAZARDOUS waste and the construction, expansion or decommissioning of facilities and associated structures and infrastructure linked to the activities listed in Category B.
The requirements commenced during 2009 but persons who were lawfully conducting waste management operations listed in both Categories may continue with those activities until such time as the Minister, by Notice in the Government Gazette, calls upon them to apply for waste management licences.
Members engaged in the construction, expansion or decommissioning of facilities and associated structures and infrastructure related to waste management activities are invited to peruse Government Notice No. 718 on the Association’s Website which contains detailed information regarding the activities listed in Categories A and B.
Pieter Rautenbach | Projects Facilitator |
