Victoria [8] Any matter whether solid, liquid, gaseous or which is discharged, emitted or deposited in the environment in such volume, constituency or manner as to cause an alteration in the environment; Any discarded, rejected, unwanted, surplus or abandoned matter; Any otherwise discarded, rejected, abandoned, unwanted or surplus matter intended for— Recycling, reprocessing, recovery or purification by a separate operation from that produced the matter; or Sale; and Any matter prescribed to be waste. Not defined in key documents. Not defined in key documents Hazardous waste is called ‘prescribed industrial waste’ in Victoria. The definition of prescribed industrial waste relies on the definition of industrial waste: Industrial waste refers to: a) any waste arising from commercial, industrial or trade activities or from laboratories; or b) any waste containing substances or materials which are potentially harmful to human beings or equipment. Prescribed industrial means “any industrial waste or mixture containing industrial waste other than industrial waste or a mixture containing industrial waste that— a) is a Schedule 1 industrial or b) has a direct beneficial reuse and has been consigned for use; or c) is exempt material; or d) is not category A category Management classification at top level is in 3 parts: municipal, industrial and prescribed wastes. Hazardous (prescribed waste, including prescribed industrial waste) classification. Data and reporting classifications: 1. Quarterly/Annual Landfill Levy Statement 2. Local Government Annual Survey and SEPP Survey 3. Victorian Recycling Industry Annual Survey 4. Victorian Litter Report. [8] Environment Protection Act 1970 [9] Environment Protection (Industrial Waste Resource) Regulations 2009
South Australia [12] a) any discarded, rejected, abandoned, unwanted or surplus matter, whether or not intended for sale or for recycling, reprocessing, recovery or purification by a separate operation from that which produced the matter; or b) anything declared by regulation (after consultation under section 5A) or by an environment protection policy to be waste, whether of value or not. Not defined, but addressed in objects of legislation [12] as (a) to promote the following principles (principles of ecologically sustainable development): (i) that the use, development and protection of the environment should be managed in a way, and at a rate, that will enable people and communities to provide for their economic, social and physical wellbeing and for their health and safety while sustaining the potential of natural and physical resources to meet the reasonably foreseeable needs of future generations. [12] (a) reusing the waste; or (b) recycling the waste; or (c) recovering energy or other resources from the waste; ‘Hazardous waste’ not defined in Acts, but under main management classification include ‘scheduled waste’. Management classification: municipal solid waste, construction and demolition (inert and mixed) and; commercial and industrial waste (inert and mixed). Levy classification: waste (metropolitan and non-metropolitan) and; fill (clean fill). Likely future landfill reporting classification (5 streams). 1. Annual Landfill Reporting 2. Annual Government Survey 3. Annual Kerbside Performance Reporting 4. Annual Recycling Activity Survey 5. Household Hazardous Collection program reporting [12] Environment Protection Act 1993 [13] Zero SA Act 2004 groups
Tasmania [17] (a) discarded, rejected, unwanted, surplus or abandoned matter, whether of any value or not; or (b) discarded, rejected, unwanted, surplus or abandoned matter, whether of any value or not, intended– (i) for recycling, reprocessing, recovery, reuse or purification by a separate operation from that which produced the matter; or (ii) for sale. Not defined. Not defined [17] ‘Controlled waste’ is defined in the 1994 Act: controlled waste means – (a) a substance that is controlled within the meaning of (i) the National Environment Protection Measure entitled the Movement of Controlled Waste Between States and Territories made by the National Environment Protection Council on 26 June 1998, as amended from time to time; or (ii) any National Environment Protection Measure substituted for the Measure referred to in paragraph (a), as amended from time to time; and (b) a substance that is prescribed by the regulations to be controlled waste; Management: municipal, commercial & industrial, construction and demolition wastes. Hazardous waste (tracking) classification. Classification for voluntary waste levy? Reporting by regulated waste depots. [17] Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 [18] Environmental Management and Pollution Control Amendment (Environment Protection Authority) Act 2007 [19] Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Waste Management) Regulations 2000 Northern Territory [20] (a) a solid, a liquid or a gas; or (b) a mixture of such substances, that is or are left over, surplus or an unwanted by-product from any activity (whether or not the substance is of and includes a prescribed substance or class of substances. Not defined. Not defined [21] ‘any waste containing significant quantities of a substance which may present a danger to the life or health of living organisms when released into the environment. These wastes may both include medical and radioactive wastes.’ Management: domestic garbage, hazardous waste, clinical waste, putrescible Hazardous waste (tracking) classification Annual Audit and Compliance Report for Licensed Waste Facilities [20] Waste Management and Pollution Control Act 2009 [21] Guidelines for the Siting, Design and Management of Waste Disposal Sites in the Northern Territory 2003