5.5 Provincial and Municipal Waste Management Plans

5.5.1
The Waste Act requires the provinces and municipalities to develop integrated waste management strategies that are co-ordinated and aligned with the relevant integrated development plans and other plans and programmes of provincial and national government, as well as relevant legislation, such as the Municipal Systems Act.

5.5.2
Provincial and municipal waste management plans will play an important role in implementing the NWMS. The plans must include a situational analysis of waste management challenges that takes into account:

• The population and development profiles of the relevant area to which the plan applies
• Quantities and types of waste
• Provision of waste management services, specifically persons not receiving such services.

5.5.3
The Waste Act further stipulates the content of waste management plans:

• They must provide criteria for identifying the waste management measures that are required or need to be implemented
• Establish targets for waste management in terms of the hierarchy of waste management measures
• Include planning for new disposal facilities systems and decommissioning of existing systems if required
• Include an implementation plan
• Include an indication of the financial resources required.

5.5.(4)
The Waste Act requires annual reporting on implementation of waste management plans. The prescriptions in terms of the content of provincial and municipal waste management plans include many of the features that will be required in the NWMS, with which these plans must be aligned, but which, in another sense, give effect to the NWMS.