1. The Minister must establish a national waste information system for the recording, collection, management and analysis of data and information that must include -
   
   1. data on the quantity and type or classification of waste generated, stored, transported, treated, transformed, reduced, re-used, recycled, recovered and disposed of; and
   2. a register of -
      
      1. waste management activities that have been licensed;
      2. the holders of waste management licences authorised to commence the waste management activities recorded in terms of subparagraph (i); and
      3. the locations where the licensed waste management activities are or may be conducted.
2. The waste information system may include information on -
   
   1. the levels and extent of waste management services provided by municipalities;
   2. information on compliance with this Act; and
   3. any other information that is necessary for the purposes of effective administration of this Act.
3. The national waste information system may be implemented incrementally.

The objective of the national waste information system is to -

1. store, verify, analyse, evaluate and provide data and information for the protection of the environment and management of waste;
2. provide information for the development and implementation of any integrated waste management plan required in terms of this Act; and
3. provide information to organs of state and the public -
   
   1. for education, awareness raising, research and development purposes;
   2. for planning, including the prioritisation of regulatory, waste minimisation and other initiatives;
   3. for obligations to report in terms of any legislation;
   4. for public safety management;
   5. on the status of the generation, collection, reduction, re-use, recycling and recovery, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste; and
   6. the impact of waste on health and the environment.

1. The MEC may establish a provincial waste information system.
2. A provincial waste information system must at least include the information required by the national information system.
3. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, and for the purposes of ensuring efficient administration, exempt a category of persons who must furnish information to the provincial waste information system established in terms of subsection (1) from furnishing that information to the national waste information system established in terms of section 60.
4. If the Minister exercises a power under subsection (3), the MEC is responsible for furnishing that information to the Minister, unless otherwise directed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

1. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette or in writing, require any person to provide, within a reasonable time or on a regular basis, any data, information, documents, samples or materials to the Minister that are reasonably required for the purposes of the national waste information system established in terms of section 60 or the management of waste.
2. The MEC may, by notice in the Gazette or in writing, require any person or organ of state to provide, within a reasonable time or on a regular basis, any data, information, documents, samples or materials to the MEC that are reasonably required for the purposes of a provincial waste information system established in terms of section 62 or the management of waste in the province.
3. A notice under subsection (1) or (2) may also indicate the manner in which the information must be furnished and, if required, how the information must be verified.
4. Where the Minister or MEC requires a municipality to furnish data, information, documents, samples or materials in terms of subsection (1) or (2), the municipality concerned may, by notice in the Gazette or in writing, require any person or organ of state to provide, within a reasonable time or on a regular basis, such data, information, documents, samples or materials, and the verification of such information, to the municipality that are reasonably required to discharge its obligations in terms of subsection (1) or (2).

Information contained in the national waste information system or a provincial waste information system established in terms of section 60 or 62, as the case may be, must be made available by the Minister or MEC, subject to the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000).