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NATIONAL ORGANIC WASTE COMPOSTING
STRATEGY
Waste Summit: 2015
Chemicals and Waste Management
Contents
THE NATIONAL ORGANIC WASTE
COMPOSTING STRATEGY
FINAL Strategy
Report
1.
2.
BACKGROUND
STRATEGY
2.1 Organic waste generation/province
2.2 Defining Compostable Organic Waste
2.3 Organic Waste Categories
2.4 Strategy Goals
2.5 Technology
2.6 Instruments
2.7 Compost Registration Process
2.8 Composting Guide
3 CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD
Background
Compost, jobs,
SME, GHG
Too much
landfilling
Reduced
air space
Opportu
nity
NWMS tells us to
divert
Pollution, health
hazards
The Strategy
Organic waste generation/province
DEFINING COMPOSTABLE ORGANIC WASTE
Adopted Definition of “Compostable Organic Waste
 A material that naturally enhances fertility of soil through a
natural degradation process, but excludes human made
organic chemicals and naturally occurring organic chemicals
which have been refined or concentrated by human activity
→ Compostable Organic Waste” will generally comprise of
materials that can be accepted for disposal at a licensed
municipal general waste landfill facility
Categories of Organic Waste
Categories of Organic Waste, Cont…
Strategy Goal 1: Review Legal & Regulatory Requirements
Goal 2: Feedstock, Opportunities, and facilities
Feedstock,
Opportunities and
Facilities
Develop organic waste
specific “advertising”
platform / website
(similar to the City of
Cape Town’s Integrated
Waste Exchange site
Develop Guideline
containing data, facts
and figures that
should be of
assistance and value
to those wishing to
engage in composting
Recording of detailed
organic waste categories
or types is urgently
required:
NB for understanding
where feedstock is
available, and where
compost is being
produced and/or required
Goal 3: SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS TO IMPLEMENT COMPOSTING
Support Structure and
functions to
implement
composting
Identification of financial
and support from
institutions/ agencies and
programmes
Harness Private Sector
involvement: PPP
Municipalities: should
seek synergies and
opportunities to combine
resources to assist one
another to promote and
develop organic waste
composting facilities..
Goal 4:EDUCATION, SKILLS & AWARENESS
EDUCATION, SKILLS &
AWARENESS
Campaigns to educate
and generate awareness
on composting as well as
on the benefits of using
compost, contamination
prevention and
separation at source
Capacity building within
municipalities in order to
ensure organic waste
quantities are measured,
recorded, and monitored
accurately
User-friendly, easy to read
and comprehendible
guidebook / pamphlet /
flyer on making compost
and the benefits thereof
is therefore required
Goal 5:Incorporate Composting into Municipal Planning, Responsibilities and Create
Roles for the Private Sector
Municipal Planning,
Responsibilities and
Create Roles for the
Private Sector
IWMPs to ensure that
sufficient physical and
financial resources are
allocated to developing
and implementing a
proper organic waste
management
Local municipalities
should assess the need
for expertise from
private industry and
consider various
partnership scenarios,
if possible
Generators and responsible
authorities would need to
ascertain responsible
(informed) person(s) to
facilitate the diversion and
beneficiation of organic
waste, including reporting
and recording
Technology
Technology, cont..
Applied Composting technologies in RSA
INSTRUMENTS FOR UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES
Compost quality control
Compost
Registration
Not for
market
Market
Regs
Regs+
No Regs
Composting activity guideline
PLANNING PHASE
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Data collection-quantities, feedstock
Site Suitability-markets, topography, sensitivity
Regulatory process: licence/Stds/ DAFF Regs
Finance: start-up cost, O&M
Market: threats/opp, quality
Is planned activity
feasible?
No
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Facility design
Construction
Staff acquisition
Equipment
O&M (env. impacts, risks)
Product: demand-supply,
labelling, TQA
YES
Reg process: Waste
Lic/Stds
Implementation
Conclusion
NOWCS
NOWCS Is NB
Implementati
on of the
NOWCS
Job Creation: Many factors
- local-specific
conditions,
- quantities and types
of organic wastes
Contribute towards
NWNS,25% of
recyclables from landfill
sites by 2016
- consumer demand,
- competing demand
for feedstock
- cost considerations,
- operational skills required,
• Thank you
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Dr Mpho Tshitangoni
Tel: (012) 399 …..
Email:MTshitangoni@environment.gov.za