The Minister of Environmental Affairs, hereby, under regulation 6(3) of the Waste Exclusion Regulations, 2018, read with sections 72 and 73 of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008), has given notice of his intention to take a decision on the applications for the exclusion of a waste stream or a portion of such a waste stream for beneficial use, for waste slag from ferrochrome metallurgy; ash from combustion plants; gypsum from pulp; paper and cardboard production and processing; as well as biomass from pulp, paper and cardboard production and processing, in the Schedule.