Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations 2020

These Regulations are issued in terms of section 69 (1) of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act 2008 and provide a framework for the development, implementation, and monitoring of extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes. 

In terms of the Regulations, a producer of certain specified products is required to establish and implement an EPR scheme that includes the entire value chain of the product. The EPR scheme must at a minimum include requirements for design for recyclability, waste minimisation, reuse, recycling, recovery for beneficial use, treatment, disposal, and reporting of data such as minimum recycled content standards, secondary materials utilisation rate, and recovery rates.

The Regulations are supplemented by the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the Electrical & Electronic Equipment Sector, 2020 (Government Notice 1185 of 2020). This Notice extends the EPR Regulations to electrical and electronic equipment including large, medium, and small equipment and batteries, requiring the producers of these products to establish and implement an EPR scheme. In addition, the Notice also sets out recycling targets for each waste stream within these products and mandate the take-back of the products at the end of their life.

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