BUSH TELEGRAPH

RECYCLING PROGRAM
IN ZIMBALI by Sue Beningfield
Dear Residents,
Please collect your initial clear bags (free of
charge) from ZEMA’s reception. Once you’ve
filled it with recyclables, place in a wheeli-bin
and on your verge by 7am on a Wednesday
morning and you will receive a replacement
bag. Please contact Sue Beningfield on
beningfield@telkomsa.net or Chris Marais
at ZEMA on 032-5384300 or visit ZEMA’s
website http://www.zema.co.za/conservation/
recycling-program if you should have any
waste queries.
LEGISLATION UPDATE
The Draft Pricing Strategy for Waste
Management was Gazetted (No. 38438) for
public comment (2 Feb - 3 Apr 2015) as
required by the Waste Amendment Act (No.
26 of 2014). This document will have some
far reaching effects, so I would recommend
you to be aware of some key points if you are
trading in waste, importing, manufacturing or
retailing certain products.
The Pricing strategy must “contain the basis
and guiding methodology for setting waste
management charges”, including –
• Funding the implementation of IndWMPs
(Industry Waste Management Plans)
• Establishment of incentives and
disincentives
• Differential charges (e.g. geographic area,
type, impact)
• Process for collection and allocation of
funds
EPR (extended producer responsibility) is
an “environmental policy approach in which
a producer’s responsibility for a product is
extended to the post-consumer stage of a
product’s life cycle” (OECD, 2001) and shall
be used as one of the tools in the Pricing
Strategy as it:
• Relieves municipalities of some of the
financial burden of waste management
• Provides incentives to producers to
reduce resources, use more secondary
materials, and implement product design
changes to reduce waste
• EPR shifts the responsibility for waste
management away from government to
industry
There are a number of voluntary ‘EPR
schemes’ in SA:
• Tins - Collect-A-Can (1993)
• Waste oil - Rose Foundation (1994)
collection by NORA-SA (2005)
• Paper - PRASA (2003) subsidiary of
PAMSA
• Plastics - PETCO (2004); Polystyrene
Packaging Council (2009); Polyco (2011)
• Glass - Glass Recycling Company (2006)
• WEEE - eWASA (2008)
And one mandatory EPR scheme in SA for
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