Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011

A person may apply to the chief executive for approval of waste, identified in the application (an exempt waste application), as exempt waste.

However, the application may be about only 1 of the following types of waste—

waste that has been donated to a charitable recycling entity but that can not practicably be re-used, recycled or sold;

waste collected by members of the community during an organised event directed at remediating the results of a person having done something that may be an offence under section 103 or 104;

earth contaminated with a hazardous contaminant from land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register;

waste to be used at a levyable waste disposal site for a purpose necessary for the operation of the site, including, for example, building infrastructure, temporary or daily covering, progressive capping, batter construction, final capping, profiling and site rehabilitation;

biosecurity waste;

serious local event waste.

Also, if the application is about biosecurity waste, the application may be made only by the chief executive of the department in which the Biosecurity Act 2014 is administered.

In addition, if the application is about serious local event waste, the application may be made only by the chief executive officer of the local government in whose local government area the serious local event waste was generated.

The application must—

be in the approved form; and

be supported by enough information to allow the chief executive to decide the application; and

be accompanied by the fee prescribed by regulation.

In this section—

operates on a not-for-profit basis; and

is registered as a charity under the Collections Act 1966; and

is a Deductible Gift Recipient for the purposes of laws administered by the Australian Taxation Office of the Commonwealth; and

actively and consistently operates a recycling or re-use program for—

providing emergency assistance; or

otherwise supporting the charitable purposes of the entity.