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National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008)

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Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for the Lighting Sector

4. The Identification of a product or class of products to which extended producer responsibility applies

 

(1) Extended producer responsibility applies to the following identified products or class of products:

 

(a) Lighting products: Different types of Lighting equipment include, but are not limited to:
(i) Gas Discharge Lighting;
- low pressure discharge Lighting: fluorescent (compact, linear and non- linear and non-fluorescent (low pressure sodium, low pressure mercury vapour);
- high intensity discharge Lighting: high pressure sodium, low pressure sodium, metal halide, high pressure mercury vapour, xenon;
- Lighting for special purposes;
(ii) All Light emitting diode (LED) lighting sources and types;
(iii) Signal/signage lighting as well as associated equipment;
(iv) Luminaires and lighting equipment fixtures or modules or associated electrical components;
(v) Laser, Pixel and ultraviolet irradiation (UVI) or ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) lighting;
(vi) Automotive lighting and luminaires;
(vii) Incandescent (filament) light bulbs and Halogen; and
(viii) Off grid solar powered lighting.