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National Environmental Management: Waste Act No 59 of 2008
Section 19; GN 921 published in Government Gazette No 37083 of 29 November 2013

Category A:
Basic assessment (Storage in lagoons, recycling (operational area greater than 500m2) / recycling hazardous waste >500kg but
Basic assessment: Provincial environmental department for general waste and national for hazardous waste

Category B:
S&EIR - hazardous waste (Storage in lagoons, recycling or recovering (includes coprocessing of more than 1000 tons of general waste or more than 1 ton of hazardous waste/day), treatment, disposal and construction , expansion or decommissioning of facilities)

S&EIR: Provincial environmental department for general waste and national for hazardous waste

Category C:
Registration and design conformanceprovincial environmental department for general waste and national for hazardous waste

Waste Act: Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan of REDISA, GN 988 of 30 November 2012

Section 8:
Waste Tyre Processors must comply with the requirements imposed by REDISA for the processing of waste tyres. Accreditation to inform REDISA.