National Solid Waste Management Strategy - Volume 1.

The National Solid Waste Management Strategy for Swaziland (NSWMS) represents a longterm plan (up to 2010) for addressing key issues, needs and problems experienced with waste management in Swaziland. The focus of the strategy is to move towards a holistic approach in waste management and the strategic approach applied for the development of the Strategy is based on the international waste hierarchy approach, which includes Waste Prevention, Recycling, Collection and Transport, Treatment and Disposal. The NSWMS is a Strategy subsidiary to the National Environmental Policy and Environmental Management Act and serves as an enabling mechanism for the implementation and enforcement of the Waste Regulations 2000. Waste is defined as “any substance or thing that the holder discards or dispose of irrespective of its value to anyone, and any substance or thing deemed by a regulation to be waste; and for the purpose of this definition: “holder” means a person in possession of the waste, or a person whose activities produced the waste or a person who carried out pre-processing, mixing or other operations that changed the nature or composition of the waste.”
Volume I of the document includes an overall summary of all the aspects of the strategy and is divided into six chapters. Chapter 2 provides the background to the project. Chapter 3 provides a summary of the technical aspects of the strategy, which is based on the Waste Hierarchy approach. Each of the components of the hierarchy is discussed and priority initiatives for each component are identified. A short overview of the enabling mechanisms related to each hierarchy component is also provided. Chapter 4 addresses the Institutional Framework, which includes all the key role-players, required for the successful implementation of the Strategy. Chapter 5 covers the enabling mechanisms related to the key role-players. A summary of the cost estimate for the implementation of the Strategy is presented in Chapter 6
Strategy objectives have been formulated at two levels. The overall objective for the National Solid Waste Management Strategy and specific objectives for the proposed interventions. The Strategy's overall objective is: “to develop, implement and maintain an integrated waste management system, that will reduce the adverse impacts of all forms of solid waste, so that social and economic development in Swaziland, the health of its people and the quality of its environment and its resources benefit”.