Waste Management Act

provision for the planning, facilitation and implementation of advanced systems for regulating the management of controlled waste in order to prevent harm to human, animal and plant life; to minimise pollution of the environment, to conserve natural resources; to cause the provisions of the Basel Convention to apply in regulating the trans-boundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal; and for matters incidental to and connected to the foregoing.

Source of regulation

Attorney General’s Chambers 

Publication of regulation

Laws of Botswana Chapter 65:06 Waste Management Act 

Date of implementation

04 September 1998 

Direct link to regulation

http://www1.eis.gov.bw/EIS/Policies/Environmental%20Policies/CAP%2065-06%20Waste%20Management%20Act.pdf 

Regulation file