2016-03-07 General Committee - Item 1 - Draft Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan - ATTACHMENT 1

Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011
Chapter 6 Strategic planning for waste reduction and recycling
Part 2 Local government strategic planning for waste
[s 124]
                  (iii) other waste generated in the local government’s
                       local government area other than by the local
                       government;
             (c)  details of current and proposed waste infrastructure;
             (d)  the   management     and   monitoring   of  the   local
                  government’s performance under the plans;
             (e)  information about achieving continuous improvement in
                  waste management;
             (f)  other matters prescribed under a regulation about the
                  requirements for a local government’s waste reduction
                  and recycling plans.

124     Matters to be complied with in the preparation and
        adoption of a local government’s waste reduction and
        recycling plan
       (1)   A local government, in preparing or adopting a waste
             reduction and recycling plan for its local government area,
             must have regard to—
             (a)  current and predicted information about the following
                  matters relating to its area—
                  (i)  population profiles;
                  (ii) residential,    industrial    and     commercial
                       development;
                  (iii) amounts and types of waste generated; and
             (b)  the services, markets and facilities relevant to dealing
                  with different types and amounts of waste; and
             (c)  the waste and resource management hierarchy; and
             (d)  the waste and resource management principles; and
             (e)  how the goals and targets of the State’s waste
                  management strategy will be achieved.
       (2)   Subsection (1) does not limit the matters the local government
             may or ought to have regard to.
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