This environmental sub-sector is extremely under-capacitated, particularly in Municipalities resulting in poor waste and chemicals management which has serious impacts on the well-being and health of South Africans. The priorities over the medium term in this area are to improve the provision of quality waste management to services across the country with clear environmental health benefits for communities which previously had no access to waste management services and with significant job creation potential throughout the waste management hierarchy, including waste minimisation, recycling, transport, storage and disposal as well as developing new industries based on specific waste streams, such as tyres, health risk and hazardous chemical waste. These benefits will be achieved through the formulation and facilitating the implementation and enforcement of strategies, norms, standards and regulations to fully give effect to the national Environmental Management: Waste Act (2008) and building capacities, particularly at local government level.