9. Waste service standards

  1. A municipality must exercise its executive authority to deliver waste management services, including waste removal, waste storage and waste disposal services, in a manner that does not conflict with section 7 or 8 of this Act.
  2. Each municipality must exercise its executive authority and perform its duty in relation to waste services, including waste collection, waste storage and waste disposal services, by-
    1. adhering to all national and provincial norms and standards;
    2. integrating its waste management plans with its integrated development plans;
    3. ensuring access for all to such services;
    4. providing such services at an affordable price, in line with its tariff policy referred to in Chapter 8 of the Municipal Systems Act;
    5. ensuring sustainable services through effective and efficient management;
    6. keeping separate financial statements, including a balance sheet of the services provided.
  3. In exercising its executive authority contemplated in subsection (1), a municipality may furthermore, amongst other things, set-
    1. local standards for the separation, compacting and storage of solid waste that is collected as part of the municipal service or that is disposed of at a municipal waste disposal facility;
    2. local standards for the management of solid waste that is disposed of by the municipality or at a waste disposal facility owned by the municipality, including requirements in respect of the avoidance and minimisation of the generation of waste and the re-use, recycling and recovery of solid waste;
    3. local standards in respect of the directing of solid waste that is collected as part of the municipal service or that is disposed of by the municipality or at a municipal waste disposal facility to specific waste treatment and disposal facilities; and
    4. local standards in respect of the control of litter.
  4. Whenever the Minister or MEC acts in terms of this Act in relation to a municipality, the Minister or MEC must seek to support and strengthen the municipality's ability or right to perform its functions in relation to waste management activities.
    1. Whenever a municipality intends passing a by-law so as to give effect to subsection (1), it must follow a consultative process provided for in Chapter 4 of the Municipal Systems Act.
    2. Paragraph (a) need not be complied with if the by-law is amended in a non-substantive manner.
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