Branch:
Chemicals and Waste Management
The Branch: Chemicals and Waste Management
effectively came into operation in April 2012 after a robust restructuring
process that resulted in the Chief Directorate: Pollution and Waste Management
becoming a more focused and better resourced branch. The primary mandate of the
Branch is to manage and ensure
chemicals and waste management policies and legislation are implemented and
enforced in compliance with applicable authorizations, directives and
multilateral environmental agreements. The Branch: Chemicals and Waste
management is made up of four distinct Chief Directorates, namely;
Chemicals & Waste
Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation;
Hazardous Waste Management
and Licensing;
Integrated Waste Management
and Strategic Support; and
Chemicals Management
Each Chief Directorate
runs programmes and projects aimed at transforming and introducing new measures
to tackle previously fragmented and uncoordinated chemicals and waste
management methods which were primarily focused on the end of pipe solutions to
managing chemicals and waste problems in South Africa in an integrated manner.