[SPONSORED] 'Our job is to play an oversight role in the system and to provide guidance and ensure that there is compliance.' Moneyweb SouthAfrica environment
JEANETTE CLARK: As environmental concerns grow, waste management in South Africa is becoming increasingly regulated, with various sectors such as the electronics, lighting, packaging, and single-use plastics industries already being subjected to stricter legislation.
BUBELE NYIBA: Used oil is made up of base oil and additives. You mix the two or you blend the two to produce a particular type of lubricant. To use an everyday example, if you are making bread, you have flour, which would be the base oil in this example, and yeast which would be the additive in this example, and you mix those two to produce bread.
BUBELE NYIBA: We estimate there to be around about 120 million litres of used oil per annum in South Africa. All that oil needs to be recovered from the generators of the used oil, the generators being those people who buy the oil in bulk and then use it in machines. So, if you talk about the transport industry, for example, bus companies would be generators because in their workshops, when they do the oil change in their buses, then they will keep that oil.
So, the lubricant manufacturers understood that at some point in future that extended producer responsibility would become legislation in South Africa and therefore, back in 1994, they decided that it would be better to be proactive than to be reactive, and to start implementing extended producer responsibility in the lube sector. That is why the Rose Foundation is the oldest extended producer-responsibility scheme in the country, and the most successful.
So, our job is to play an oversight role in the system and to provide guidance and ensure that there is compliance, so that a collector, when [they have] picked up the oil from the generator and [are] taking it to a recycling plant, that collector is [doing it] in the correct way so the oil is not dripping from the point of collection to the drop-off point.
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