CURRICULUM VITAE OF

LAURA CELESTE TAYLOR Sole Proprietor

Taylor EnviroWaste Consulting (Formally EnviroSus Consulting)

April 2017

Waste Specialist and Environmental Consultant specializing in:

Waste Laws and Environmental Law in general Waste Licensing Waste Management and Training Integrated Waste Management Plans Hazardous Substances Management Environmental Management Systems and Training

Enviro-legal compliance assistance or auditing Obtaining Scheduled Trade Permits Sustainability reporting and Training

Recent past Chairperson of Toti Conservancy and of the Isipingo/Mbokodweni Catchment Management Forum.

Recipient of EThekwini Certificate of Appreciation for several years of consistent voluntary services rendered towards the sustainability of Durban’s environment: November 2015

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1. PERSONAL DETAILS

SURNAME : Taylor FIRST NAMES : Laura Celeste

DATE OF BIRTH : 11 November 1962 IDENTITY NUMBER : 621111 0173 08 2

NATIONALITY : South African

GENDER : Female

DEPENDANTS : Two children (Daniel and Matthew) aged 22 and 20 MARITAL STATUS : Single HOME LANGUAGE : English

OTHER LANGUAGES : Afrikaans and basic Zulu

DRIVERS LICENSES : Code A and EB POSTAL ADDRESS : 28 Poss Rd, Kingsburgh, Durban, 4126

E MAIL ADDRESS : envirowaste@connect.co.za

CELL NUMBER : 083 626 3785 LANDLINE : 031 916 1716

2. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2.1 SCHOOL ATTENDED : Empangeni High School.

MATRICULATION : 1979 – Aggregate B SUBJECTS PASSED : English, Afrikaans, Maths, Biology, Geography, Music

2.2 TERTIARY EDUCATION BA (Honours) in History - University of Kwa Zulu Natal – 1987

BSc with majors in Geography and Zoology - UNISA – 1997 (Passed with distinction)

MSc in Geography and Environmental Management - Potchefstroom University (now

University of the North West) - Cum Laude – 2001 DISSERTATION TOPIC – Incentives & methods in municipal solid waste recycling: A comparative analysis.

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3. ADDITIONAL COURSES COMPLETED______________________________________

3.1 Environmental Short Courses

1. Accredited Assessors Training Course. Train You Can, Durban, April 2013. 2. Hazardous Waste and Dangerous Goods Master class, EC Logistics and SRM consulting,

through KC Facilitating Solutions, 2011 3. GRI Sustainability Performance Indicators, ESS, 2011 4. Sustainability Reporting : GRI Training Programme, ESS, 2011 5. Environmental Law, Toyota Academy, 2009 6. Hazardous Waste Management, Institute of Waste Management, 2009 7. Enviro-legal Training Course, presented by Legal Assessments, June 2003 8. Waste Management for Environmental Managers, Centre for Environmental Management,

Potchefstroom University, 2003. 9. ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 Workshop, Pulse International, 2002. 10. Air Quality Management and Pollution Control in South Africa, Matrix Environmental

Consultants and the Atmospheric and Energy Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand, March 2002

11. Environmental Auditing based on ISO 14001, Centre for Environmental Management, Potchefstroom University, 2002Environmental Law for Environmental Managers, Centre for Environmental Management, Potchefstroom University, 2001.

3.2 Toyota Short Courses

1. Toyota Business Practices, Toyota Academy, 2008. 2. Toyota Way, Toyota Academy, 2008. 3. Performance Management, Toyota Academy, 2008. 4. Initiating Disciplinary Hearings, Toyota Academy, 2009 5. Chairing Disciplinary hearings, Toyota Academy, 2009 6. Environmental Law, Toyota Academy, 2009

3.3 Computer Short Courses and Competencies

1. MS Project, Anglo Platinum, 2003 2. Microsoft Excel, Basic, Toyota Academy, 2008 3. Microsoft Excel, Intermediate, Toyota Academy, 2009 4. Lotus Notes, Toyota Academy, 2008

Please note: I am also proficient in MS Word and Power Point.

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4. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Since June 2011 I have been self-employed and my own consultancy – Taylor EnviroWaste Consulting (previously EnviroSus Consulting.) 4.1 CURRENT & RECENT ACTIVITIES: 4.1.1 Training courses offered to business and government covering the following:

1. SA Waste Laws: 2008 – 2017 and Waste Classification using SANS 10234, GHS. More

than 400 people have attended this ECSA accredited course so far. 2. Practical Waste Management. 3. Health Care Risk Waste Legislation 4. ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems 5. Chemicals and Hazardous Substances Management and Transportation 6. Sustainability Reporting using the GRI G4 as well as the ISCN/GULF sustainability

reporting Charter for Campuses

4.1.2 Consulting Work:

Transnet Port of Saldanha and Goldfields South Deep Mine Integrated Waste Management Plan as a sub-consultant waste specialist for I-Cat Environmental Solutions who won the tenders to do the IWMPs.

Consultant to Sappi Saiccor. Issues around waste boiler ash and its use in block making resulted in the granting of an exemption to conditions in NEMWA. I was involved from the beginning and provided training to the members of the Umkhomazi Block Makers Association.

Extensive training work – especially Waste Laws Training across the country. More than 400 people have attended my Waste Laws Training Course to date.

Scheduled Trade Permit Applications successfully done for several companies in Richards Bay and Durban.

Environmental Assessment Practitioner doing the Waste License application for Alpine Mega Paints in Durban involving a Full EIA.

Environmental Consultant to MacDonald’s Transport in Durban and Richards Bay, Wenclin Metals in Richards Bay and The New Reclamation Group in Richards Bay – busy with Scheduled Trade Permit and Environmental Management Plans.

Waste and hazardous substances consultant to Letseng Diamond Mine in Lesotho. I wrote the Integrated Waste Management Plan and Hazardous Substances Management Plan for the mine in 2012/13.

Environmental Management Systems consultant to Letseng Diamond Mine and Gauche Air in Durban.

4.1.3 Recent Reports Written

1. Parts of Integrated Waste Management Plans for the Port of Saldanha and Goldfields South Deep Mine, 2016.

2. EMP for Alpine Mega Paints in Durban, 2016. 3. Environmental Management Plans (2015) for the following:

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a. Wenclin Metals CC b. MacDonalds Transport c. The New Reclamation Group

4. Letseng Diamond Mine: Interpretation of Laboratory Analysis of Ash Samples from Waste Incinerator, May 2013

5. Letseng Diamond Mine: Integrated Waste Management Plan, 2013. 6. Letseng Diamond Mine: Hazardous Substances Management Plan, 2013. 7. Letseng Diamond Mine: Environmental Impact Assessment for Waste Management,

2012. 8. Letseng Diamond Mine: Environmental Impact Assessment for Hazardous Substances

Management, 2012. 4.2 TOYOTA SOUTH AFRICA MOTORS – SHE DEPARTMENT

PERIOD : January 2008 to April 2011 POSITION HELD : Environmental Manager, Waste and Systems

RESPONSIBILITIES

Waste management was the major part of my job. Toyota practices extensive

waste sorting and recycling on site. Current recycling rates are close to 80%. I managed this as well as managing the correct disposal of hazardous waste. This involved chairing and coordinating the Toyota Waste Working Group across all the Toyota plants in Durban. Management of the waste contractors was also my responsibility.

Toyota is very diligent in recording waste figures per plant and setting reduction targets, and to this end I was responsible for the development and implementation of an electronic waste tracking system to improve our accuracy. We were also involved in projects to minimize waste by reducing packaging waste and finding alternative uses for our sludge wastes which had been delisted.

Manager of the Waste Water Treatment Plant. Due to staff shortages I managed the WWTP for a period of 18 months. This involved managing both the contractors on site and the maintenance manager to ensure that the water quality leaving the plant was up to Metro specs.

ISO 14001 and Toyota EMS implementation, maintenance, training and auditing. This was another major focus area. I was the EMS manager in charge of 6 Toyota plants working with the Environmental Champions in ISO 14001 implementation and maintenance. This involved all aspects of the system and a great deal of internal auditing as well as auditing with external auditors.

Legal Compliance and Significant Environmental Aspects Management

A key part of my function was to ensure legal compliance of significant environmental aspects for the plants that I managed. Each operation deemed environmentally significant had to have legally compliant operational controls in

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place. This involved a significant amount of on the job training in Environmental Engineering and working with contractors on projects.

Liaison with external organizations, in particular the Isipingo/Mbokodweni

Catchment Management Forum (CMF), and Prospecton Business Forum. I saw the CMF as an important part of my job.

Sustainability Reporting and Environmental Communications I co-ordinated the production of the 2008 and 2010 Toyota Sustainability report. To view a copy of the reports go to: http://www.toyota.co.za . I have studied the field of Sustainability report writing and this I snow one of my areas of specialization.

Liaison with authorities. I was involved with obtaining waste water discharge

permits, a scheduled trade permit, a waste license in terms of the new Waste Act (NEMWA) and registration as a tyre producer in terms of the Waste Tyre Regulations. Liaison with authorities is always an important part of the function of an Environmental Manager.

4.3 ANGLO PLATINUM – REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT – RUSTENBURG PERIOD : 2001 – 2005 POSITION HELD : Environmental Manager: Systems, Waste and

Projects RESPONSIBILITIES Develop and co-ordinate the implementation of an integrated waste management

system across the company’s Rustenburg region. This became the major part of my job. A serious problem existed at the company with regard to a massive buildup of solid

waste at many of the Business Units and particularly at the shafts. My task was to develop a regional waste management system that would take care

of the backlog as well as ensuring that in the future the system would run smoothly and be fully legally compliant.

This involved analyzing the problem together with senior company executives, researching possible alternatives, workshopping the alternatives with managers across the region, removing waste contractors and replacing them with new contractors. The system was formalized with detailed Site Specific Waste Management Plans and regular audits of these plans.

The system covered all aspects of solid waste management including the development and management of waste sorting and recycling areas, central salvage yard management, landfill site management and permitting, hazardous waste and medical waste.

A Waste Information System was also researched and developed.

Permit the Anglo Platinum Landfill site This involved the rehabilitation of the landfill site including the management and reorganization of the existing waste pickers on the site. It also involved organizing several stakeholders meetings and liaising with the authorities towards the permitting of the site.

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Co-ordinator of Rustenburg Regional landfill site development on behalf of the

company. A regional landfill site for the Rustenburg municipality was to be established in an old opencast mine belonging to Anglo Platinum. I headed the Anglo Platinum portion of the team working towards this. The team included the municipality, and consultants as well as the authorities.

Develop and co-ordinate the implementation of an Environmental Management

System which could be certified to ISO 14001 across the Business Units of the company’s Rustenburg region.

o This involved workshopping and discussions with senior, middle and junior management at all business units, co-ordinating the employment of Environmental Coordinators at the Business Units who would champion the implementation of the EMS, working with consultants and being part of the implementation of an electronic database that managed the EMS across the company.

o ISO 14001 certification was achieved across all the Rustenburg Region Business Units by the end of 2004.

Co-ordinate the implementation of an Emergencies Preparedness and Response

system across the company’s Rustenburg Business Units in line with the United Nations Environment Programme’s APELL (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level) document.

o This involved co-ordinating a Steering Committee of representatives from all Business Units and working with a consultant to analyze all major hazardous installations and their potential effects as well as working out an Emergencies Response System.

4.4 CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – UNIVERSITY OF POTCHEFSTROOM

PERIOD : 2000 – 2001 POSITION HELD : Principal writer of the UNEP, ICLEI, FIDIC,

Environmental Management Systems Training Resource Kit for Local Authorities. For further information on the kit see: http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/announcements/emskit_launch.asp

RESPONSIBILITIES

I was the Principal Writer of the Environmental Management Systems Kit for Local Authorities. This was a joint project between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and FIDIC and involved working with an international team from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan and South Africa.

The job also entailed the development of the training material and then participating in the training at two international Train the Trainers events in Germany and

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Hungary, during which local authorities from Eastern Europe were given the opportunity to be trained in the implementation of EMSs.

4.5 MMABATHO HIGH SCHOOL - MAFIKENG

PERIOD : 1996 POSITION HELD : Geography Teacher : Std. 8 – Std. 10 (Head of

Subject). I also ran the school’s Environmental Club. 4.6 UNIVERSITY OF BOPHUTHATSWANA - MAFIKENG

PERIOD : 1991 POSITION HELD : Lecturer – History Department

4.7 MMABATHO HIGH SCHOOL - MAFIKENG PERIOD : January 1988 – December 1990

POSITION HELD : History Teacher – Std. 7 – Std. 10. EXTRA – CURRICULAR : Athletics; school newspaper; drama; Std 7 and Std 9

trip coordinator; School and Inter schools quiz organizer; environmental club; current affairs society.

5. REPORTS WRITTEN

5.1 Toyota A3 documents Toyota does not write reports, rather they produce A3 documents that follow a particular format and methodology and these are “visualized” (obeya - a Japanese term) or displayed on a notice board where everyone can see and discuss. I have had to produce many of these on a range of topics and my Excel skills have become very good as a result. 5.2 Standard Reports

1. Toyota South Africa Motors Sustainability (TSAM) Reports 2008 and 2010. Principal

coordinator. 2. Many EMS Audit Reports for TSAM. 3. Anglo Platinum Rustenburg Landfill site Operational Audit. March 2004 4. Waterval Smelter Waste Management System Audit – July 2003. (X19) (These were

completed for every business area.) 5. Background report to the Chicane Refurbishment and Salvage Management Company.

November 2003 6. Site Specific Waste Management Plans (X19). These were done for every business area in

the Rustenburg region of Anglo Platinum including Shafts, Concentrators, Smelters and Refineries. Audits and audit reports of these plans were also done biannually.

7. A Regional Waste Management Plan, Anglo Platinum, January 2003. 8. The Way Forward on the Regional Waste Management Plan, Anglo Platinum, July 2003.

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9. A comprehensive analysis of major hazardous installations across the Rustenburg region of Anglo Platinum. July 2002.

10. Submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Human Rights Violations in Bophuthatswana – Mafikeng Anti Repression Forum – July 1997

11. “Problems in the creation of a climate for free political expression in Bophuthatswana.” Paper for CODESA working group on the future of the TBVC States. Mafikeng Anti Repression Forum – February 1992.

12. Mafikeng Anti Repression Forum Annual reports, 1990 and 1991.

6. ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLICATIONS

1. International Lessons in Municipal Solid Waste Recycling – A comparison of waste recycling in more developed and less developed countries. Resource. The official journal of the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa. February 2004.

2. Environmental Management Systems Kit for Local Authorities, United Nations Environment Programme, 2001. I was the principal writer on this major project and also trained at two international “Train the Trainers” events in Germany and Hungary.

7. ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Waste Minimization at TSAM, presentation to the Waste minimization Interest group of the

Institute of waster Management of SA, Durban, 13 May 2010. 2. Recycling incentives and methods: A comparative look at developing and developed

countries – Paper delivered at the Institute for International Relations Waste Conference. January 2003

3. International Lessons in Municipal Solid Waste Recycling – A comparison of waste recycling in more developed and less developed countries – Paper delivered at the North West Regional Waste Congress – August 2001

8. WORKSHOPS ORGANISED________________________________________________ 1. Many Environmental and Waste Management Training Courses in current position. 2. Toyota EMS and ISO 14001 – Workshops with new Environmental Champions at Toyota,

2009 and 2010 3. Anglo Platinum, Rustenburg Region. A series of workshops at all business units to address

the issue of waste management. 2003 and 2004. 4. Anglo Platinum, Rustenburg Region. A series of workshops at all business units to address

the issue of ISO14001 implementation. 2003 and 2004. 5. Anglo Platinum. Emergency Preparedness and Response. Workshop with all Business

Units with Core Risk consultant Gary Mac Fadden, 2002. 6. Many Human Rights and Student Anti-apartheid workshops during the 1980s and early

1990s.

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9. CURRENT MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANISATIONS

1. Toti Conservancy 2. Toti Catchment Management Forum 3. Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) 4. International Association of Impact Assessors (IAIA) 5. Sweetwaters Full Gospel Church

10. OTHER POSITIONS HELD

1. Chairperson, Isipingo/Mbokodweni Catchment Management Forum:2010-2013 2. Secretary, Environmental Committee, United Democratic Hogsback Association of

Residents (UDHAR), 1992 and 1993. We were working toward the establishment of a Biosphere Reserve in the Amatola Mountains of the Eastern Cape, as well as towards the establishment of a village for the local community.

3. Chairperson, Mafikeng Anti Repression Forum (MAREF) – February 1991 to December 1991. The Mafikeng Ant Repression Forum was a human rights group active in Mafikeng and throughout the former homeland of Bophutuhatswana. We played a key role in combating human rights violations and in ensuring the release of political prisoners between 1990 and 1993, despite heavy repression against ourselves.

4. Treasurer, Mafikeng Anti-Repression Forum (MAREF) – March 1990 – November 1990 5. Natal coordinator – SASPU (South African Students Press Union) National

Newspaper – January to December 1896 6. Natal coordinator – NUSAS (National Union of South African Students) – January

1985 – Dec 1985 7. Member of the Students Representative Council, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg –

1983/4 8. Member of NUX Student newspaper, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg – 1981/4 9. Legal Aid Assistant – Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) – 1981/2 10. Volunteer Literacy Teacher - Federation of South African Trade Unions – 1981-3

11. REFEREES_______________________________________________________ Professional References 1. Larry Singh – Isipingo Island Institute and Attorney at Law, Tel: 031 902 6072, e mail,

larrysingh@yebo.co.za.

2. Lee D’Eathe – Retired Head of Ethekwini Roads and Stormwater Department. Currently - Business Unusual, Tel: 083 461 5964. E mail, businessunusuallee@gmail.com

3. Chris Fennemore, Ethekwini Pollution control, Tel: 031 3118734E mail, christopher.fennemore@durban.gov.za

4. Chris Skinner, Chairperson of WESSA, Upper South Coast Branch, Tel: 031 9043045. e mail, chris.skinner@telkomsa.net

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5. Charlene Van Rooyen – Manager, SHE Department, Toyota South Africa Motors, Durban, Tel: 084 512 2291, e mail: cvrooyen@toyota.co.za

6. Jenny Mare – Corporate Affairs General Manager, Toyota South Africa Motors, Tel: 011 809 2122 e mail: jmare@tsb.toyota.co.za.

7. Professor Johan Nel – Director, Centre for Environmental Management, University of the North West, Potchefstroom. Tel +27 (0) 18 299 1581 or e-mail: johan.nel@nwu.ac.za

8. Mr Stephen Bullock – Head: Sustainable Development – Anglo Platinum – former boss.

SBullock@Angloplat.com Tel: 083 455 2764