24647 Seaview Tce Enviro Mgmt Plan

Waste Management Plan
Job No. 24647 - 71 Seaview Terrace Sunshine Beach Qld 4567


 Term                         Definition
 Contamination                Contamination of the environment is the release (whether by act or omission) of a
                              contaminant into the environment.
                              A contaminant can be:
                              (a) a gas, liquid or solid; or
                              (b) an odour; or
                              (c) an organism (whether alive or dead), including a virus; or
                              (d) energy, including noise, heat, radioactivity and electromagnetic radiation; or
                              (e) a combination of contaminants.

 Waste                        (1) Waste includes anything, other than a resource approved under subsection (4), that
                              is—
                              (a) left over, or an unwanted by-product, from an industrial, commercial, domestic or
                              other activity; or
                              (b) Surplus to the industrial, commercial, domestic or other activity generating the waste.
                              (2) Waste can be a gas, liquid, solid or energy, or a combination of any of them.
                              (3) A thing can be waste whether or not it is of value.
                              (4) The administering authority may approve a resource, or a stated type of resource,
                              for subsection (1) if it considers the resource, or type of resource, has a beneficial use
                              other than disposal

 Regulated Waste              (1) Regulated waste is waste that
                              (a) is commercial or industrial waste, whether or not it has been immobilised or treated;
                              and
                              (b) is of a type, or contains a constituent of a type, mentioned in Schedule 7 listed under
                              Section 65 in the Environmental Protection Regulation 2008
                              (2) Waste prescribed under subsection (1) includes—
                              (a) for an element—any chemical compound containing the element; and
                              (b) anything that contains residues of the waste.




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