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National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008)

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National Waste Information Regulations, 2012

Annexures

Annexure 1 : List of Persons Conducting the following Activities must register on the SAWIS in terms of Regulation 5

 

Generators of waste

 

(a) Generators of hazardous waste in excess of 20kg per day.

 

Recovery or recycling of waste

 

(b) Recovery of energy from general waste in excess of three (3) tons per day.
(c) Recovery of waste at a facility that has the capacity to process in excess of 10 tons of general waste or in excess of 500kg of hazardous waste per day, excluding recovery that takes place as an integral part of an internal manufacturing process within the same premises.
(d) The scrapping or recovery of motor vehicles at a facility that has an operational area in excess of 500m2.
(e) Recycling of general waste at a facility that has an operational area in excess of 500m2.
(f) Recycling of hazardous waste in excess of 500kg per day calculated as a monthly average.

 

Treatment of waste

 

(g) Treatment of general waste using any form of treatment at a facility that has the capacity to process in excess of 10 tons of general waste or 500kg of hazardous waste per day excluding the treatment of effluent, wastewater or sewerage.
(h) Treatment of health care risk waste regardless of size or capacity of the facility.

 

Disposal of waste

 

(i) Disposal of general waste to land covering an area in excess of 200m2
(j) Disposal of any quantity of hazardous waste to land.

 

Exportation of hazardous waste

 

(k) Hazardous waste exported from the Republic of South Africa.