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Waste Minimisation Act 2008

Preliminary provisions

7: Meaning of disposal facility

You could also call this:

"What a disposal facility is: a place that gets rid of household waste as part of its work"

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When you read the Waste Minimisation Act 2008, the term disposal facility has a specific meaning. A disposal facility is a place where waste is thrown away, like a landfill. This place must get rid of household waste, which is waste from homes that is not entirely from building or renovating the house.

You need to know that a disposal facility operates as a business to get rid of waste. This means it is a place that throws away waste as part of its work. A disposal facility can also be another type of place where waste is thrown away, if the government says it is.

The term household waste refers to waste that comes from a home, but not from building, renovating, or demolishing the house.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

7Meaning of disposal facility

  1. In this Act, unless the context requires another meaning, disposal facility means—

  2. a facility, including a landfill,—
    1. at which waste is disposed of; and
      1. at which the waste disposed of includes household waste; and
        1. that operates, at least in part, as a business to dispose of waste; and
        2. any other facility or class of facility at which waste is disposed of that is prescribed as a disposal facility.

          1. In subsection (1)(a)(ii), household waste means waste from a household that is not entirely from construction, renovation, or demolition of the house.