Standard identity
NWSS is the Nova Waste Service Standard, code nwss. Nova Institute NPC authors and operates it. Its namespace is https://nova.org.za/nwss/ and its catalog type is impact-standard.
It covers waste services delivered to communities: registering the places served, enrolling the people who take part, placing containers, collecting separated waste, weighing and sorting it at a facility, sending materials to offtakers, and evaluating the quality of the service. It defines the activities, the evidence each one leaves and the methods that turn that evidence into indicators.
It is written for many projects over many years, and is not tied to any one of them. The towns that novaWaste2 served supplied its first evidence, but none of them, and no project’s rates, routes or land registers, appear in its normative text. Paying for the work belongs to Independent Impact bounties, and deciding what to do next belongs to the operational layer (novaOS). Both are outside this standard. NWSS states only what counts as a completed, evidenced piece of work.
NIAS defines impact accounting. Greenhouse-gas results reach NWSS through approved methodologies such as AMS-III.AJ and AMS-III.F; NWSS does not calculate them itself. NWSS has its own corpus, releases and stable IRIs.