10 Recorder 23 January 2015

Volksrust Recorder - Column/Rubrieke

Volksrust / Seme
Business Column
National Environmental
Management: Waste Act 59 of
2008

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Article by Natalie Graaff is a SHEQ Legal Consultant at Steam LCS.

The Waste Act is legislation which was developed under the National Environmental
Management Act and is regarded as a specific Environmental Management Act (SEMA)
which deals with waste management.
The overall purpose of the Act was to amend the law regulating the management of waste in
order to protect people and the environment.
This is achieved by putting minimum requirements in place for any person who produces or
handles waste. It has further improved the system for licensing of waste management
activities, in order to control these activities and to ensure that they do not impact on human
health and the environment.
Waste Act objectives
Some of the objectives of the Waste Management Act are to protect health, well-being and
the environment by providing reasonable measures for:
- minimizing the consumption of natural resources
- avoiding and minimizing the generation of waste
- reducing, re-using, recycling and recovering waste
- treating and safely disposing of waste as a last resort
- preventing pollution and ecological degradation
- securing ecologically sustainable development while promoting justifiable economic and
social development
- promoting and ensuring the effective delivery of waste services
- remediating land where contamination presents, or may present, a significant risk of harm to
health or the environment, and
- achieving integrated waste management reporting and planning.
Waste management approach adopted
The most significant aspect of the Waste Act is that it adopts a recognised waste management
hierarchy system which says that waste must first be avoided, and where it cannot be
avoided it must be reduced, reused, recycled or recovered and only disposed of if there is
nothing else that could be done with it.
The Act further sets the requirements for storage of waste, as well as the containers for
storage. The main consideration is pollution prevention from spillage and escape of waste
from the storage area only approved containers may be used for storing waste.
Waste management duties
General Duties in Respect of Waste Management are summarised as follows:
A holder of waste must, within the holders power, take all reasonable measures to :
- avoid the generation of waste and where such generation cannot be avoided, to minimize
the toxicity and amounts of waste that are generated
- reduce, re-use, recycle and recover waste
- where waste must be disposed of, ensure that the waste is treated and disposed of in an
environmentally sound manner
- manage the waste in such a manner that it
does not endanger health or the environment
or cause a nuisance through noise, odour or
visual impacts
- prevent any employee or any person under
his or her supervision from contravening this
Act
- prevent the waste from being used for an Ps. 119:105 U woord is n lamp vir my voet
unauthorized purpose.
en n lig vir my pad.
Any person who sells a product that may be Nut of nuttig veronderstel bruikbaarheid dat
used by the public and that is likely to result ons dit vir iets nuttig kan aanwend! Heb. 1:1
in the generation of hazardous waste must Nadat God baiekeer en op baie maniere in die
take reasonable steps to inform the public of ou tyd gespreek het tot die vaders deur die
the impact of that waste on health and the profete.
environment.
Dit is belangrik om te besef dat God die
Waste Act & non-compliance penalties Outeur is wat die Bybel deur mense laat
The Act lists the different sections of Act neerpen het. Uit Sy mond het die skrywers
wherein non-compliances thereto will verneem wat hulle moet neerskryf. 2Pet.
constitute an offense. The penalties for each 1:20-21 terwyl julle veral dt moet weet, dat
offense are set by a Magistrate, however the geen profesie van die Skrif n saak van eie
Act gives the maximum of R 10 million or uitlegging is nie; want geen profesie is ooit
maximum of 10 years imprisonment, or both. deur die wil van n mens voortgebring nie,
Penalties will vary depending on the extent maar, deur die Heilige Gees gedrywe, het
or the severity of the offense committed.
die heilige mense van God gespreek. Baie
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will have its first public meeting on 24 ontvang. Hulle wil God nie gehoorsaam nie,
February 2015. Everyone interested in being veral wanneer daar iets van hulle gevra word
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nie vragskepe vol tekskritiek en teorie van
evolusie en welke teorie ookal kan God as

With Jacques de Villiers

Be Selfish and Feel Good About It

Do you ever feel guilty when youre selfish?
You know, when you do something just for
you?
I did.
If I wasnt putting my family first, going to
bat for my clients 100% and slaving away to
make sure that everyone in my ecosystem
was ok, then I felt guilty.
This was up until I came to the concept of
selfishness through an Irishman called Philip
McKernan who runs an intervention called
Authentic Goal Setting.
He asked one of his clients what he liked
doing. After some time and prompting, the
client finally admitted that he liked yachting.
But that he didnt do it anymore.
McKernan asked him if his family minded
when he spent time on the yacht. His answer
was illuminating. He claimed that there was
more harmony in the house because he was
in a better mood.
He felt more relaxed, invigorated and centred
after a session of yachting. He enjoyed his
family more and they him.
McKernan then berated him. He said that he
was selfish by not going yachting. Surely, if
it put him in a better mood, made him a better
father, a better husband, a better person
surely thats a good thing?
And, for me thats the aha moment. If we
give everything to others and leave nothing
for ourselves, then we are doomed to be
unhappy. And, if we make ourselves unhappy,
thats just being selfish, isnt it?
Because when were happy, it rubs off on
those we love and they become happy. So,
its a win-win all round.

The bottom line is that we need me time.

Ive met so many couples that may as well be
joined at the hip because they do everything
together. It is almost as if one cant function
without the other, theyre so co-dependent.
They become us but lose their individual
identity in the process.
One of our biggest drivers is the need for
significance.
In a relationship environment theres a lot of
us and very little me.
Weve been brainwashed that if we spend
me time, were being selfish.
But if you buy into McKernans concept of
selfishness, then being selfish is not a bad
thing, is it?
Be a bit selfish. Do something that you love.
Go fishing. Read a book. Yacht. Have a facial.
Hang out with friends. Meditate. Go to gym.
Run. Collect stamps. Bake. Hike. Sit. Breathe.
Whatever it is that inspires you, go on, do it.
Be selfish and take some me time.
Whats the worst that can happen? You may
feel happier. Lighter. More centred. Grateful.
You may just become a better mommy, daddy,
son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother,
employee, employer that cant ever be a
bad thing, can it?
Connect with you next week Im off to
spend an hour or so at the lake with my
fishing rod and maybe catch a Bass or two.
And, if I dont so what? Im connecting
with me and being selfish.
Check out Authentic Goal Setting http://
mindvalleyacademy.com/store/authenticgoal-setting/
For further information:
Jacques de Villiers
www.jacquesdevilliers.co.za
082 906 3693

die Outeur van die Bybel weg verklaar nie.

Die vraag vir ons is; Hoe sien ons die Woord
van God? Het God se Woord vandag vir ons
enige nut? Is die Woord van God vir ons
gesaghebbend en winsgewend, komende van
God vir ons lewe? Ps. 119:105 s die Woord
is God se lig op u en my pad. HY verlig die
weg wat Hy weet die beste vir die mens is
sodat hulle dit kan bewandel. Ps. 119:130
Die opening van u woorde gee lig; dit maak
die eenvoudiges verstandig. Ons word
verstandig wanneer ons na die Here luister!
Jer. 29:11 Want k weet watter gedagtes Ek
aangaande julle koester, spreek die HERE,
gedagtes van vrede en nie van onheil nie, om
julle n hoopvolle toekoms te gee. God weet
wat die beste vir u en my is en daarom verlig
Hy ons pad om ons te lei na wat die heel
beste is vir ons. Rom. 8:28 En ons weet dat
vir hulle wat God liefhet, alles ten goede
meewerk, vir hulle wat na sy voorneme geroep
is. God se Woord onderrig ons sodat ons
Hom kan behaag en ons lewens Hom
verheerlik. Sy Woord leer ons hoe Hy ons
sien; hoe om n kind van God te word (Joh.
3:3); wat sonde is; wat Sy wil is en nie is nie;
wat Sy eis m.b.t. heiligheid is ens. Die doel
van God se Woord is dat dit nuttig vir ons
moet wees. Ps. 119:104, 105 Uit u bevele

kry ek verstand; daarom haat ek elke

leuenpad. U woord is n lamp vir my voet en
n lig vir my pad. God se Woord kom uit Sy
hart vir n mensdom wat Hom vandag baie
nodig het en Hy spreek tot ons deur Sy
Woord. Aanvaarding van die Woord van God
as komende van Hom en studie van Sy Woord
gee vir ons wysheid m.b.t. die dinge van die
Here en wat Sy wil vir ons as mens is en dit
bring ons op n plek waar Hy met ons kan
praat en met ons werk. Baie mense het al foute
gemaak wat hulle nie sou gemaak het indien
hulle die Woord van die Here beter geken het
nie. Ps. 119:11 Ek het u woord in my hart
gebre, dat ek teen U nie sal sondig nie. Die
beste manier om foute te vermy is om meer te
bid, meer die Bybel te bestudeer en jou
gemoed met die Woord te vul. 2Pet. 3:18
Maar julle moet toeneem in die genade en
kennis van onse Here en Saligmaker, Jesus
Christus. Hou aan om die Bybel te lees, te
bepeins en dit te lewe. Groete in Sy Naam.
Ds. Jan Keyser

Die nut
van die Bybel