Environment Management (Waste Management and Sanitation) Regulations, 2008.

The Regulations are organized in X Parts and 20 Schedules. Part II regulates role of local authorities requiring them to prepare waste management plans and promote integrated solid waste management, including as well governance of municipal sewage collection system. Part III concerns management of general or municipal solid waste and sets the following general rules: any person who generates or collects solid waste shall sort out the waste by separating hazardous waste from the general or municipal solid waste, the latter shall be further sorted out into categories of wastes that can be recycled or reclaimed and waste that is earmarked for disposal. (waste separation at source); every generator of waste shall be responsible for the safe and sanitary storage of all general or municipal solid waste accumulated on his or her property so as not to promote the propagation, harborage or attraction of vectors or the creation of nuisances (general responsibility for proper storage of municipal solid waste); responsible for collection of municipal solid waste is the local authority, that might also assign it to a private contractor. ù
Part 4 firstly identifies recyclable materials (plastics; metals such as aluminium foil, beverage cans, metal, food cans; tyres; and leaf and yard waste and other organic materials including agricultural solid wastes), then provides a discipline for licence to own or operate a recycling facility. A business may recycle any commercial solid waste which is recyclable under these Regulations and for which there is a viable market and must prepare and submit to the Director a certified (reg. 19) waste reduction and recycling plan and an annual report (details on content provided under regulation 17 and 18).
Part 5 Management of municipal liquid waste fixes limits to discharges of effluent to waters and environment; effluent quality limits are under schedule 6. Disinfected effluent may be used for domestic or agricultural water extraction; recreational uses; or aquatic food production. The Part continues regulating sewage facility management, connection system. Discharge of liquid waste in the environment shall be monitored and reported, following requirements of regulations 28, 29, 30.
Part 6 concerns hazardous waste and sets labeling requirements, provides directions for handling hazardous wastes, regulates disposal of infectious waste and its containment, storage, transfer, record, and treatment methods. PArt VII is dedicated to transportation and storage of waste, this include: licence for waste transportation, conditions attached to licences, materials for storage of waste. Part VIII is on waste disposal site. Firstly the Part states that no disposal site or plant shall be licensed under these Regulations unless an environmental impact assessment has been carried out, then the Part continues providing regulation on licencing system and prevention of pollution. Part IX is transboundary movement of wastes and poses restrictions on exporting hazardous wastes or other wastes, also the Director shall be the national authority for the operation of the prior informed consent procedure for the import, export or any other transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. Lastly, no hazardous wastes shall be transported by water except for hazardous wastes generated from islands within the territorial jurisdiction of Malwi.