Liandra Taljaard is an environmental lawyer with extensive experience in environmental, waste, mining, occupational health and safety, and regulatory compliance law. She advises clients across the mining, manufacturing, steel, cement, infrastructure, waste management, and broader industrial sectors on complex regulatory and compliance matters in South Africa and on the implications of environmental regulatory frameworks for international operations, investment, resource recovery, and trade.Ā
Her practice focuses on environmental authorisations, waste management legislation, environmental enforcement, administrative law, regulatory strategy, and litigation. She has been actively involved in several significant legal and regulatory matters concerning the interpretation and application of environmental legislation, particularly issues relating to the legal classification of waste, by-products, and secondary resources and their implications for resource recovery and circular economy initiatives.Ā
Liandra regularly advises clients and industry stakeholders on navigating the intersection between environmental protection requirements, sustainable development objectives, and operational realities. Her work frequently involves assessing regulatory approaches, identifying legal risks, and developing practical compliance strategies that support sustainable industrial development and circular economy objectives.Ā
She is a recognised speaker on environmental and waste regulation and has participated in industry forums and stakeholder engagements aimed at improving regulatory certainty and promoting practical, legally sound environmental governance. Most recently, she presented at the Global Slag Conference in Istanbul, TĆ¼rkiye, where international stakeholders considered the distinction between waste and secondary resources and the regulatory challenges associated with advancing circular economy principles across different jurisdictions.Ā
Liandra’s experience enables her to provide strategic legal and regulatory insights on environmental and resource recovery issues affecting industrial operations both within South Africa and in an international context.
