Regulated e‑waste not to be disposed to landfill
8 Regulated e‑waste not to be disposed to landfill
An e‑waste service provider must not send regulated e‑waste to, or leave regulated e‑waste at, a landfill site.
Penalty for this subregulation: a fine of $10 000.
A significant entity must not send regulated e‑waste to, or leave regulated e‑waste at, a landfill site.
Penalty for this subregulation: a fine of $10 000.
It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subregulation (1) or (2) to prove that the e‑waste service provider or a significant entity that is a business entity (as the case may be) sent the regulated e‑waste to, or left the regulated e‑waste at, the landfill site in the reasonable expectation that the regulated e‑waste would be aggregated (either at the landfill site or at some other place).
A public entity is not in breach of subregulation (2) if the public entity sent the regulated e‑waste to, or left the regulated e‑waste at, a landfill site in the reasonable expectation that the regulated e‑waste would be aggregated (either at the landfill site or at some other place).
A landfill operator must not dispose of regulated e‑waste that has been accepted at a landfill site to landfill.
Penalty for this subregulation: a fine of $10 000.
It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subregulation (5) to prove that the landfill operator —
obtained a written declaration, signed by the person who left the waste accepted at the landfill site, that the person had no reason to believe that the waste contained or was regulated e‑waste; or
did not know, and could not reasonably have known, that waste accepted at the landfill site contained or was regulated e‑waste.
[Regulation 8 amended: SL 2026/120 r. 6.]
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