WASTE MANAGEMENT: EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY REGULATIONS AMENDED

WASTE MANAGEMENT: EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY REGULATIONS AMENDED

• 06 November 2024
• Environmental Law
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: On 11 November 2024, the department gazetted a guideline and toolkit for determining extended producer responsibiity fees.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has gazetted a notice amending National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008, Regulation 7, which deals with financial arrangements for an extended producer responsibility scheme.

This is noting that the department’s extended producer responsibility programme:

• is underpinned by the 2020 national waste management strategy, and
• gives practical effect to an environmental policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility for a product is extended to its post-consumer lifespan.

In place since November 2020, the regulations were amended in May 2021 – among other things requiring the Finance Minister to concur with sector-specific fees within 60 days [sub-regulation 7(2)].

The 60-day timeframe has now been removed.

As far as can be ascertained, there are now extended producer responsibility schemes in place for:

• tyres
• lubricant oils
• portable batteries
• pesticides
• plastic
• electrical and electronic equipment
• lighting
• paper and packaging, and
• glass.

Please click the links below for more information:

• 6 November 2024 notice removing 60-day timeframe
• May 2021 amending regulations
• November 2020 regulations
• 2020 waste management strategy 

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