Minister Barbara Creecy launches national waste management (NWM) fleet worth R44,5 million in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo
Minister Barbara Creecy launches national waste management (NWM) fleet worth R44,5 million in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Limpopo
23 May 2022
The National Waste Management Strategy was revised in 2020 and focuses on: improving household waste collection; diverting waste from landfills; promoting a circular economy and promoting community awareness of the effects of illegal dumping on their own health and on the environment.
“To achieve the goals of this strategy, all stakeholders must play their part: national and provincial government must support municipalities to develop local integrated waste management strategies. We must ensure our landfills comply with the regulatory environment and waste does not leach into ground water or into the soil. We must invest in the yellow fleet and every year we must ensure more and more homes have access to safe waste disposal,” says Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy.
She added that the private sector must promote the circular economy and divert waste from landfills as government has already set up the regulatory environment for extended producer responsibility schemes to promote re-cycling in the packaging, electronics and lighting industries with recent regulations gazetted for new sectors such as used oil and pesticides. Government and the private sector must work with waste reclaimers so that we build a dignified waste reclaiming industry that promotes waste diversion from landfills, promotes the circular economy and gives a decent livelihood to the tens of thousands of men and women who do the daily backbreaking work of the recycling industry.
To improve waste management in municipalities, the department is assisting in the development of their integrated waste management plans, and training on sustainable waste management practices. We have also co-operated with National Treasury and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) to change the Municipal Infrastructure Grant Policy so that municipalities can now access this grant to fund their yellow fleet.
To highlight and raise awareness on the amendments of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant Policy, the department has used R44.5-million of our own money to provide 24 vehicles to 20 municipalities across the country. The vehicles include skip loader trucks, front-end loaders, compactor trucks, TLBs and other trucks required to transport waste within these areas.
Today, Collins Chabane Local Municipality received a compactor truck and a skip loader, together valued at more than R5 million to assist in waste collection and the processing of waste at landfill. Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality received a waste compactor truck and a TLB truck with a combined value of nearly R4 million.
Twenty (20) municipalities benefitted (list of beneficiary municipalities is in table one (1) below):
Table1: fleet purchased for 20 local municipalities.
| Province | Municipality | Item description | Quantity | Cost |
| Mpumalanga | Mbombela | 1x compactor truck | 2 | R2,551,881.81 |
| Mpumalanga | Mbombela | 1x skip loader truck | R2,849,049.05 | |
| Mpumalanga | Bushbuckridge | 1x compactor truck | 2 | R2,551,881.81 |
| Mpumalanga | Bushbuckridge | 1x skip loader truck | R2,849,049.05 | |
| Limpopo | Ba-Phalaborwa | 1x compactor truck | 2 | R2,849,049.05 |
| Limpopo | Ba-Phalaborwa | 1x tractor loader backhoe (TLB) | R1,065,211.87 | |
| Limpopo | Collins Chabane | 1x compactor truck | 2 | R2,551,881.81 |
| Limpopo | Collins Chabane | 1x skip loader truck | R2,849,049.05 | |
| Western Cape | Matzikama | 1x skip loader truck | 1 | R2,186,150.00 |
| Western Cape | Cederberg | 1x skip loader truck | 1 | R2,849,049.05 |
| Free State | Masilonyana | 1x compactor truck | 1 | R2,849,049.05 |
| Free State | Matjhabeng | 1x compactor truck | 1 | R2,551,881.81 |
| Free State | Metsimoholo | 1x tractor loader backhoe (TLB) | 1 | R1,065,211.87 |
| Gauteng | Merafong | 1x skip loader truck | 1 | R2,849,049.05 |
| Gauteng | Rand West City | 1x front end loader (FEL) | 1 | R1,003,124.20 |
| Eastern Cape | Makana | 1x skip loader truck | 1 | R2,849,049.05 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | Ray Nkonyeni | 1x tractor loader backhoe (TLB) | 1 | R1,065,211.87 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | Umhlabuyalingana | 1x tractor loader backhoe (TLB) | 1 | R1,065,211.87 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | Dannhauser | 1x front end loader (FEL) | 1 | R1,065,211.87 |
| Northern Cape | Emthanjeni | 1x tractor loader backhoe (TLB) | 1 | R1,065,211.87 |
| Northern Cape | Dawid Kruiper | 1x front end loader (FEL) | 1 | R1,003,124.20 |
| Northern Cape | Kai Garib | 1x front end loader (FEL) | 1 | R1,003,124.20 |
| North West | Moses Kotane | 1x front end loader (FEL) | 1 | R1,003,124.20 |
| North West | Ramotshere Moiloa | 1x front end loader (FEL) | 1 | R1,003,124.20 |
| Total | 20 municipalities | R44,586,713.46 |
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