New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WASTE AVOIDANCE AND RESOURCE RECOVERY ACT 2001 - SECT 12

12 Development of waste strategies

(1) The Director-General is to develop a waste strategy for the State.

(2) A waste strategy:

(a) is to be based on continuous improvement and benchmarked against international best practice, and

(b) is to include targets for waste reduction, resource recovery and the diversion of waste from landfill disposal, developed by an expert reference group appointed by the Director-General.

(3) A waste strategy does not take effect until it is adopted by the Director-General.

(5) After the adoption of the first waste strategy, subsequent waste strategies, to replace existing waste strategies, are to be developed at intervals of not more than 5 years.

(6) For the purpose of developing any waste strategy, the adequacy of the waste strategy is, if appropriate, to be assessed by means including the technique known as life cycle analysis.

(7) Before adopting a waste strategy, the Director-General:

(a) must cause notice of the proposed strategy to be published in a daily newspaper circulating throughout the State, and

(b) must cause copies of the proposed strategy to be made available for public inspection on the Internet and at the head office of the Department, and

(c) must allow a period of at least 28 days for members of the public to send written comments to the Director-General in relation to the proposed strategy, and

(d) must take any such comments into consideration.