Environment Protection Act 1993

For the purposes of this Act, waste means—

any discarded, dumped, rejected, abandoned, unwanted or surplus matter, whether or not intended for sale or for purification or resource recovery by a separate operation from that which produced the matter;

any matter declared by regulation to be waste for the purposes of this Act (following consultation by the Minister on the regulation with prescribed bodies in accordance with the regulations); or

any matter declared by an environment protection policy to be waste for the purposes of this Act, whether or not of value.

However, waste does not include—

an approved recovered resource whilst it is being dealt with in accordance with the declaration of that resource—see section 4A; or

anything declared by regulation or an environment protection policy not to be waste for the purposes of this Act, even though the resource or the thing so declared might otherwise, but for the declaration, fall within the definition of waste in subsection (1).