WASTE MANAGEMENT: EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY REGULATIONS AMENDED

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 202), 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.

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