DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

GAUTENG WASTE MANAGEMENT FORUM

15 June 2017

Zingisa Smale

GDARD Report-back 1. GDARD Presentation at IWMSA Workshop on 29 March 2017 on “ Landfill airspace and plans for increased recycling in Gauteng” – Excepts Presentation 2. Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) Meeting took place on 11 April 2017 3. Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) Meeting on 12 July 2017 regarding import of hazardous waste – Issue raised and technical IGR recommendations were discussed at MINMEC – report from MINMEC to be presented at next forum 4. Industry Waste Management Plans - GDARD requests Industry Plans to be copied to Provinces so that they can comment to DEA 5. National Chemicals and Waste Awareness Committee Meeting Work Continues 6. 2017 Gauteng State of Environment Report (SOER) Royal HaskoningDHV has been appointed drafting the 2017 Gauteng SOER expected to finish the project by September 2017

Global Sustainable Development Goals

South Africa, as part of the global community subscribes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) developed by the United Nations. Some of the 17 SDGs:

#3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

#8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment

and decent work for all

#9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization

and foster innovation

#10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

#11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

#12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

#13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

#15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt

and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

(Source : Stats SA , 2016 - Workshop on Domestication of SDGs - Gauteng Province)

Aim of SDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty

Economic dimension

Environmental dimension

Social dimension

National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS)

The (NWMS) in 2011 identified the following as some of challenges with regard to waste management in South Africa:

– “ A growing population and economy “ which lead to

increased waste volumes , thus putting pressure on waste management facilities already in short supply.

– Lack of recycling infrastructure for “separation of waste at source and diversion of waste streams to material recovery and buy back facilities”

– “Pervasive under-pricing” of waste disposal services which lead to waste disposal being the preferred over other waste management options.

National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) cont.

NWMS sets, amongst others the following goals by 2016: Goal 1: Promote waste minimisation, re-use, recycling and recovery of waste. Goal 3: Grow the contribution of the waste sector to the green economy. • 69 000 new jobs created in the waste sector

• 2 600 additional SMEs and cooperatives participating in

waste service delivery and recycling

The National Development Plan (NDP) 2030

The NDP states the following :

“Increasing quantities of waste, poor waste management and lack of access to waste services lead to pollution and associated health impacts and environmental degradation.

This is coupled to the fact that levels of recycling and re-use are relatively low and waste is not necessarily seen or considered as a resource with socio-economic potential.

To address challenges in this area the NDP identifies the implementation of the waste hierarchy strategy of reduce, re-use and recycle.

This requires product stewardship (producer responsibility) and the rapid expansion of recycling infrastructure.”

(As a last resort!!)

Challenges with landfilling

– Dust / Odours / Air pollution

– Ground & Surface water contamination

– Litter , Diseases , Fire and explosions

– Biodiversity loss

– Landfill settlement / Subsidence

– Land sterilisation

– Complaints of lowering of property values

– Methane generation - Global warming

– Throwing away - burying resources i.e. wastefulness

Challenges : Landfilling is throwing away resources

• Reclaimers living inside Rooipoort landfill site in Merafong City Local Municipality

• Recyclable waste sorting and separation at Luipaardsvlei landfill site, Mogale City Local Municipality

Challenges : Landfilling is throwing away resources

Landfilling – throwing away resources

• Reclamation at Waldrift landfill site, Emfuleni Local Municipality

• Reclaimers Luipaardsvlei landfill site, Mogale City Local Municipality

Challenges : Landfilling is throwing away resources

• Reclamation taking place inside Onderstepoort landfill site in City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

Challenges : Landfilling is throwing away resources

GDARD Interventions

• Waste Minimisation Plan and Waste Collection standards developed for use in 2010

• Indicated municipal integrated waste management plans (IWMPs) must include separation at source

• Support of Recycling facilities and Buyback facilities with equipment providing accredited training to support

GDARD Interventions • 42 waste facilities (waste co-operatives, buyback centres

and recycling facilities) assisted since start of programme in 2012/2013

• Equipment assistance include: – 8 Paper and steel balers; – 3 Can crushing machines; – 7 Bottle crushing machines; – 14 Platform scales; – 153 Trolleys; – 8500 Refuse bags; – 400 Bulk bags; – 26 Facilities were provided with PPE.

• 657 workers - 389 Male, 268 Female and 333 Youth) • Monitoring recycling volumes

GDARD Interventions

• 66 Facilities were trained in Gauteng in: – financial management – project management – health and safety – first aid

• Environmental awareness within communities

• 50 cooperatives were assisted to register with the Department of Trade and Industry.

• This is to formalise these so that they can buy and sell recyclable material such as paper, plastic, bottles, cans from community members and/or waste pickers or collectors and sell recyclables to bigger companies both in the country and abroad.

GDARD Interventions

• Working with DEA, encouraging recycling by, for example, removing EIA requirements for waste storage and substituting these with norms and standards

• Increasing the thresholds that trigger EIA particularly for general waste

• Inclusion of separation of waste at source in new developments applications where feasible.

• GDARD is looking at legal process to mandate the

separation of waste at source in municipalities.

Gauteng Waste Partnership Projects

GDARD and National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Partnership • Partnership aimed empowering youth in environmental management

particularly waste management and agro processing. • 20 youth businesses identified within NYDA data base • Attention will be on value- add programmes including buy back centers

as well as the waste to energy.

• GDARD Agro-processing has been involved in a study on waste to energy. The study is almost at its final stages .

GDARD and Rutegang Primary Agricycling Cooperative • Removal of all waste paper from Department and reginal offices and all

satellites through waste cooperative

• Gauteng Province is currently rolling out a project to integrate informal recyclers into the waste stream.

• This pilot will be rolled out in Ekurhuleni Metro and is for a period of 12 months.

• This pilot will be launched on 18 July at Makhulong Stadium Andrew Mapheto stadium Tembisa

• It is expected that this pilot will reach 200 informal waste recyclers/cooperative members and will create more than 2000 downstream job opportunities.

• The pilot has a strong business development and infrastructure component.

Gauteng Waste Partnership Projects

Kindly note that the partnership between GDARD and NYDA has been signed. The MOU focuses on

empowering black young businesses in the areas of environmental management particularly waste

management and agro processing. For the current period, the focus is on 20 youth businesses that

have been identified by NYDA from within their own data base and based on the proposal submitted for

support in them. The attention will be given to value add programmes such as butcheries, coffin

manufacturing, etc. this will also focus on buy back

Gauteng Waste Partnership Projects

I am happy to inform you that directorate for agro processing through its coops unit, has been involved in a study on waste to energy. The study is almost at

its final stages and is pleasing. The results of this study will be directly utilized to implement this

MOU. We will be writing a memo officially to the ADDG informing him of this and requesting both waste management and agro processing to put

funding for infrastructure aside for the implementation of this MOU.

GDARD – DEA – Municipal Youth jobs in waste project

– Joint project with DEA for skills development and waste management in Sedibeng and Rand West District Municipalities

– Intake of interns at the Departments in waste management

who can later be absorbed into the waste sector.

• In addition, Gauteng supports these 50 cooperatives to register with the Department of Trade and Industry.

• This is to formalise buyback centres so that they can buy and sell recyclable material such as paper, plastic, bottles, cans from community members and/or waste pickers or collectors and sell recyclables to bigger companies both in the country and abroad.

DEA Waste Projects

The national projects are focused on development or investigation of viable policy / economic instruments in 2017/18

1. Chemicals and Waste Economy Phakisa

2. Mandatory separation at source through policy instrument

3. Investigation of feasibility of landfill disposal tax (as a disincentive)

4. Construction and demolition waste policy interventions

5. Further policy instruments for plastic waste management

DEA Projects Waste Economy “Phakisa Project”

• In March 2014, the Cabinet approved the piloting of the use of the Malaysian Big Fast Results (BFR) methodology in South Africa.

• The adapted methodology was renamed to Operation Phakisa, which means “hurry up” in Sesotho.

• Operation Phakisa aims to fast track the implementation of solutions on critical development issues highlighted in the National Development Plan (NDP).

• It is a cross-sector programme in which various stakeholders engage to implement initiatives and concrete actions to address constraints to delivery in a prioritised focused area.

• The application of the methodology necessitated standardisation in the way it is approached and implemented.

• DEA will be requested to present the Waste Phakisa in a forthcoming Gauteng Waste Forum

• Landfills are potential sources of soil water and air pollution even

long after termination of landfilling activities.

• The landfilling of waste is the least desirable option as it buries resources that could potentially generate economic benefit and assist on much needed job creation

• Government views the waste management sector as a potential job creator and aims to expending more effort in diverting waste from landfill

• Existing landfill airspace can be conserved by separation of waste at source for recycling activities and , where appropriate using organic / food waste as biofuels. The diversion of waste from landfill must accelerated

Conclusions

Therefore , diversion of waste from landfill is key as indicated above.

• Department has initiated review of waste management licences includes recyclables must not be disposed of on landfill but be diverted

• We started separation of waste at source, particularly paper in GDARD building and planned for all GPG Buildings.

• The Department will Gazette separation of waste at source in Gauteng Municipalities, as provided for by the Waste Act and supported the Gauteng Waste Collection Standards

• GDARD will call municipalities to publish where builders rubble may be deposited

• Partner with recycling industry on recycling projects

• Supporting recycling facilities, waste cooperatives and buyback-centres and will continue doing so thereby assisting the unemployed to be employed.

• We are train recycling facilities and working with National Department will support Material Recovery Facility (MRF) development

• Will look at identifying targets for procuring recyclable goods to stimulate the recycling economy

Thank you