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Waste Minimisation Act 2008

Product stewardship

8: Purpose of Part

You could also call this:

"Sharing responsibility for reducing waste and protecting the environment"

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The purpose of this part of the law is to encourage you and organisations to share responsibility for products. You will be responsible for reducing, reusing, recycling, or recovering products. This also means managing any environmental harm caused by products when they become waste.

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Part 2Product stewardship

8Purpose of Part

  1. The purpose of this Part is to encourage (and, in certain circumstances, require) the people and organisations involved in the life of a product to share responsibility for—

  2. ensuring there is effective reduction, reuse, recycling, or recovery of the product; and
    1. managing any environmental harm arising from the product when it becomes waste.