WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 142 Requirements for waste reduction and recycling plan

WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 142

142 Requirements for waste reduction and recycling plan

(1) This section states requirements for a waste reduction and recycling plan for a planning entity or sector of planning entities.

(2) The plan must have regard to—

(a) current and predicted information about waste; and

(b) the waste and resource management hierarchy; and

(c) the waste and resource management principles; and

(d) the State’s waste management strategy; and

(e) any other matters prescribed under a regulation about the requirements for a waste reduction and recycling plan.

(3) The plan must include the following information—

(a) the amounts and types of waste that is currently generated;

(b) how the waste is to be dealt with, including how and in what amounts the types of waste are to be dealt with under each of the precepts making up the waste and resource management hierarchy;

(c) goals to reduce waste generated;

(d) indicators or performance measures on which performance under the plan will be assessed;

(e) actions that will be taken to reduce waste generation and to improve recycling;

(f) any other matters prescribed under a regulation about requirements for a waste reduction and recycling plan.

(4) Subsection (2) does not limit the matters the plan may or ought to have regard to.

(5) The plan must provide for it to be in effect for a period (the
"implementation period" for the plan) of at least 3 years.

(6) Subsection (5) does not stop the plan being amended or replaced within the implementation period.

(7) The plan must provide for its review at least every 3 years.