Drafting and/or review of environmental legislation

We are proud to have written the following, either on our own or as part of a team:

  • City of Windhoek, Namibia – Integrated Waste Management Regulations (sole drafter)
  • City of Cape Town – Draft Integrated Waste Management By-law (sole drafter)
  • KwaZulu-Natal Province – Draft Waste Prevention and Management Bill (co-drafter)

At the request of the City of Cape Town we reviewed the following draft legislation:

  • Dumping and Littering By-law
  • Draft Stormwater Management By-law
  • Wastewater and Industrial Effluent By-law
  • Draft Waste Disposal By-law

Waste related legislation and waste management matters

We were part of multidisciplinary teams in the following government projects:

  • Scaling up the Waste Management Flagship Programme in the RSA -Diversion of Municipal Solid Waste away from Landfill in 6 Municipalities (Gemeinschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Department of Environmental Affairs)
  • Development of Waste Minimisation Strategy for Johannesburg’s Pikitup SOC Ltd
  • Provincial Integrated Waste Management Plan for the Free State Province (Dept of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs)
  • Health Care Risk Waste Strategy for the City of Windhoek, Namibia
  • Waste Management Plan for the City of Windhoek, Namibia
  • Provincial Integrated Waste Management Plan for the Northern Cape Province (Dept of Tourism, Environment and Conservation)
  • Integrated Waste Management Plan for the Hibiscus Coast Municipality
  • Integrated Waste Management Plan for the City of Cape Town
  • Integrated Waste Management Plan for the Namakwa District Municipality
  • Review of the Western Cape’s Waste Legislation for DECAS (now Dept of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning)

Similar projects were performed for private industry or parastatal institutions.

In addition, we wrote several legal reviews dealing with other environmental issues for various local and provincial government authorities.

Environmental and/or health and safety legal training workshops

We regularly offer and hold workshops, either in-house or at an organised venue.