Department of Environmental Affairs
Acting minister of water and environmental affairs Collins Chabane has withdrawn government’s approval of the integrated industry waste tyre management plan.
This was announced in a notice published on the department’s website.
The plan was developed in terms of the requirements of National Environmental Management Waste Act 59 of 2008 and waste tyre regulation nine.
Formulated by the recycling and economic development initiative of South Africa (REDISA), the plan was approved by water and environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa on 28 November 2011, as announced in Notice 983 of Government Gazette 34796.
It became effective on 1 December 2011 and was binding to all producers, transporters, dealers and processors of tyres across South Africa’s nine provinces.
On 17 January 2011, Molewa announced the introduction of a R2.30 per kilogram levy on new tyres with a view to funding the plan.
The levy was to have been imposed at source on new tyre manufacturers and importers, and was scheduled to become effective on 1 February 2012.
According to the notice, withdrawing the approval will “afford the department an opportunity to attend to procedural requirements stipulated in the waste tyre regulations”.
Regulations for waste tyres were published in Government Gazette 31901 dated 13 February 2009.
Members of the general public will be afforded an opportunity to engage on the plan and give input on it “in due course”.
Update: The withdrawal of government approval of the plan has since been published in notice 58 of Government Gazette 34974 dated 26 January 2012.
Sabinet Cape Town Office
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