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Studien fokuserar på att identifiera utmaningar och lösningar för hantering av hyresgästernas avfallhos fastighetsägaren, Rikshem. Arbetet att identifiera och undersöka Rikshems utmaningar medavfallshantering på nationell nivå baserades på intervjuer med olika medarbetare i bolaget samtundersökning av kostnader och andra interna dokument. Tre utmaningar identifierades: felsortering,översopor samt nedskräpning och dumpning av grovavfall. Orsakerna och konsekvenserna till dessautmaningar sammanställdes. Intervjuerna med andra fastighetsägare bekräftades utmaningarna somåterkommande hos fastighetsägare i vissa av deras områden. I syfte att lösa dessa problem identifierades olika lösningar från intervjuerna och delades upp ipraktiska och strategiska lösningar med hjälp av tematisk analys. Lösningarna undersöktes senareutifrån Rikshem hållbarhetskompass. De strategiska lösningarna som att ta fram mål och vision samtsammanställa kostnader rekommenderades att utföras på bolagsnivå. De praktiska lösningarnainkluderar bland annat olika former av miljöhus, tekniska lösningar i form av TV-skärmar, sensoreroch kärlpress, alternativ för grovsoprum, personlig service och nudging. Dessa lösningar måstedäremot undersökas vidare då de utförs utifrån varje områdes enskilda förutsättningar och behov. / The study focuses on identifying challenges and solutions for managing tenants' waste living inRikshem’s houses. The work to identify and investigate Rikshem's challenges with waste managementat the national level was based on interviews with various employees in the company as well as anexamination of other internal documents. Three challenges were identified: incorrect sorting,overloaded waste containers and dumping of bulky waste. The causes and consequences of thesechallenges were compiled. The interviews with other property owners confirmed that these challengesrecur with other property owners. In order to solve these problems, different solutions from the interviews were identified and dividedinto practical and strategic solutions using thematic analysis. The solutions were later examined basedon Rikshem's sustainability compass. The strategic solutions such as developing goals and vision andcompiling costs were recommended to be carried out at a company level. The practical solutionsinclude various forms of environmental houses, technical solutions in the form of TV screens, sensorsand container-press, alternatives for bulky waste rooms, personal service and nudging. Thesesolutions, on the other hand, must be further investigated as they would be carried out on the basis ofeach area's individual conditions and needs.Keyword

In order to address the growing waste concerns facing South Africa, the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) published the National Waste Management Strategy in 2012. The ultimate aim of the strategy is to effect the realisation of the objectives of the National Environmental Management Waste Act (NEMWA). The NEMWA is a sector environmental law based on the waste management hierarchy and its provisions apply to waste management activities in all three government spheres amongst others. The NWMS provides for eight distinct goals with accompanying targets to be met by 2016. Some of these goals and targets speak directly to the solid waste management mandate of local government. Concerns about the capacity of municipalities to see the execution of this mandate however, raise questions about the likelihood of some NWMS goals and targets being met by 2016. The North West Province serves as a case in point where recent reports by the office of the Auditor General have highlighted significant non-compliance in local government with the provisions of the existing waste law and policy framework of South Africa. It appears form these reports that a number of performance gaps and capacity constraints exist as far as it concerns municipal solid waste management. Against this back ground the study questions the governance strategies necessary within the municipalities of the North West Province to: a) address the existing performance gaps and capacity constraints and b) progressively move towards meeting the NWMS goals and targets as far as it concerns solid waste management. The study will explore the objectives, goals and targets of the NWMS against the background of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) and NEMWA, with a specific focus on solid waste management. The study will further review the documented performance gaps and capacity constraints as a far as it concerns solid waste management in municipalities in the North West province, specifically. / M. Environmental Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

In order to address the growing waste concerns facing South Africa, the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) published the National Waste Management Strategy in 2012. The ultimate aim of the strategy is to effect the realisation of the objectives of the National Environmental Management Waste Act (NEMWA). The NEMWA is a sector environmental law based on the waste management hierarchy and its provisions apply to waste management activities in all three government spheres amongst others. The NWMS provides for eight distinct goals with accompanying targets to be met by 2016. Some of these goals and targets speak directly to the solid waste management mandate of local government. Concerns about the capacity of municipalities to see the execution of this mandate however, raise questions about the likelihood of some NWMS goals and targets being met by 2016. The North West Province serves as a case in point where recent reports by the office of the Auditor General have highlighted significant non-compliance in local government with the provisions of the existing waste law and policy framework of South Africa. It appears form these reports that a number of performance gaps and capacity constraints exist as far as it concerns municipal solid waste management. Against this back ground the study questions the governance strategies necessary within the municipalities of the North West Province to: a) address the existing performance gaps and capacity constraints and b) progressively move towards meeting the NWMS goals and targets as far as it concerns solid waste management. The study will explore the objectives, goals and targets of the NWMS against the background of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) and NEMWA, with a specific focus on solid waste management. The study will further review the documented performance gaps and capacity constraints as a far as it concerns solid waste management in municipalities in the North West province, specifically. / M. Environmental Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014