Integrated Waste Management Policy

Integrated Waste Management Policy and Plan (IWMPP)
Policy, Research and Planning Sub-Unit The city has an Integrated Waste Management Policy and Plan to address waste challenges, setting targets for waste minimisation and diversion from landfills. The department's goals include waste reduction, recycling initiatives, and environmentally sustainable practices. The focus areas for the next five years involve waste separation at source, empowering waste pickers, developing infrastructure for waste minimisation, beneficiation of waste streams, ensuring waste disposal space security, and implementing waste treatment technologies. The department emphasises formalising waste pickers, developing waste information management systems, and enforcing bylaws to control pollution. Funded projects include waste-to-energy and biodigester plants, waste treatment infrastructure plan, sorting facilities, bylaw review, and a waste information management system. The department aims to achieve environmentally sustainable practices, reduce waste, and control pollution through a comprehensive and innovative waste management approach. According to the NEMA: Waste Act 2008 (Act 59 of 2008), Chapter 3(10) (3), each municipality that is authorised to carry out waste management services must designate a waste management officer (WMO) from its administration. The WMO is responsible for coordinating matters related to waste management in the municipality. The WMO's activities should be aligned with the National Waste Management Strategy. The WMOs perform regulatory functions and should ideally be located in separate functional divisions from service delivery functions, to ensure oversight and adherence to national norms and standards as outlined in the NEMA. Click here for the Waste Management Policy Oversight Kyasands & Limbo Park rehabilitation Monitoring of the Rehabilitation process Strategy Development 1. IWMP (Integrated Waste Management Policy) 2. Events 3. Illegal Dumping 4 . Disposal strategy plan 2. Waste By-Laws ( Compliance and Permitting Unit) The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality has a constitutional duty to provide waste management services and regulate waste management activities within its area of jurisdiction. In order to ensure effective and efficient provision of services and regulation within its area of jurisdiction, the City developed and promulgated Waste Management By-laws on the 30th of July 2013. There have been legislative and other developments that warranted the review of the Waste Management By-laws. The bylaws have now been reviewed and amended. The main objects of the Waste Management By-laws are to: Ensure that waste is avoided, or where it cannot altogether be avoided, minimised, re-used, recycled, recovered and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner; Promote sustainable development and environmental justice through fair and reasonable measures for the management of waste within the Council's jurisdiction; Regulate the collection, transportation, storage, disposal, treatment and recycling of waste within the Council's jurisdiction; Regulate and ensure effective delivery of the municipal service, and regulate the provision of commercial services through accreditation of service providers, and Ensure that all municipal residents and businesses in the jurisdiction of the Council participate in the promotion of responsible citizenship by ensuring sound waste management practices within residential and industrial environments. ACTIVITIES 1. Inspection 2. Attend to complaints 3. Clean up campaigns 4. BLITZ 5. JOC As part of their regulatory functions, the WMOs support the EMIs who enforce the provisions of the Waste Act. This requires a close working relationship between the WMOs and EMIs. The WMOs assist the Compliance & Enforcement Unit in the Department in identifying priorities for monitoring activities that pose significant threats to health and the environment. They also collaborate with EMIs to prepare Waste Impact reports. In certain circumstances, both the EMI and WMOs can request a waste impact report, which will be conducted in consultation and cooperation with each other.

Integrated Waste Management Policy and Plan (IWMPP)

Policy, Research and Planning Sub-Unit

The city has an Integrated Waste Management Policy and Plan to address waste challenges, setting targets for waste minimisation and diversion from landfills. The department's goals include waste reduction, recycling initiatives, and environmentally sustainable practices.

The focus areas for the next five years involve waste separation at source, empowering waste pickers, developing infrastructure for waste minimisation, beneficiation of waste streams, ensuring waste disposal space security, and implementing waste treatment technologies. The department emphasises formalising waste pickers, developing waste information management systems, and enforcing bylaws to control pollution.

Funded projects include waste-to-energy and biodigester plants, waste treatment infrastructure plan, sorting facilities, bylaw review, and a waste information management system. The department aims to achieve environmentally sustainable practices, reduce waste, and control pollution through a comprehensive and innovative waste management approach.

According to the NEMA: Waste Act 2008 (Act 59 of 2008), Chapter 3(10) (3), each municipality that is authorised to carry out waste management services must designate a waste management officer (WMO) from its administration.

The WMO is responsible for coordinating matters related to waste management in the municipality. The WMO's activities should be aligned with the National Waste Management Strategy.

The WMOs perform regulatory functions and should ideally be located in separate functional divisions from service delivery functions, to ensure oversight and adherence to national norms and standards as outlined in the NEMA.

Click here for the Waste Management Policy

Oversight

Kyasands & Limbo Park rehabilitation
Monitoring of the Rehabilitation process

Strategy Development

1. IWMP (Integrated Waste Management Policy)

2. Events

3. Illegal Dumping

4 . Disposal strategy plan

2. Waste By-Laws ( Compliance and Permitting Unit)

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality has a constitutional duty to provide waste management services and regulate waste management activities within its area of jurisdiction. In order to ensure effective and efficient provision of services and regulation within its area of jurisdiction, the City developed and promulgated Waste Management By-laws on the 30th of July 2013. There have been legislative and other developments that warranted the review of the Waste Management By-laws. The bylaws have now been reviewed and amended.

The main objects of the Waste Management By-laws are to:

Ensure that waste is avoided, or where it cannot altogether be avoided, minimised, re-used, recycled, recovered and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner;
Promote sustainable development and environmental justice through fair and reasonable measures for the management of waste within the Council's jurisdiction;
Regulate the collection, transportation, storage, disposal, treatment and recycling of waste within the Council's jurisdiction;
Regulate and ensure effective delivery of the municipal service, and regulate the provision of commercial services through accreditation of service providers, and
Ensure that all municipal residents and businesses in the jurisdiction of the Council participate in the promotion of responsible citizenship by ensuring sound waste management practices within residential and industrial environments.

ACTIVITIES

1. Inspection

2. Attend to complaints

3. Clean up campaigns

4. BLITZ

5. JOC

As part of their regulatory functions, the WMOs support the EMIs who enforce the provisions of the Waste Act. This requires a close working relationship between the WMOs and EMIs. The WMOs assist the Compliance & Enforcement Unit in the Department in identifying priorities for monitoring activities that pose significant threats to health and the environment. They also collaborate with EMIs to prepare Waste Impact reports. In certain circumstances, both the EMI and WMOs can request a waste impact report, which will be conducted in consultation and cooperation with each other.