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Waste Minimisation Act 2008

Responsibilities of territorial authorities in relation to waste management and minimisation - Waste management and minimisation plans

43: Waste management and minimisation plans

You could also call this:

"Plans to reduce and manage waste in your community"

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When a territorial authority makes a waste management and minimisation plan, it must follow certain rules. The plan must say what the authority wants to achieve with its waste management and minimisation, and how it will do it. It must also say how the authority will pay for the plan.

The plan must include things like how the authority will collect, recover, recycle, treat, and dispose of waste in its district. It must also say what facilities the authority will provide for waste management and minimisation, and what activities it will do to educate people about waste management. The authority must also say in the plan how it will fund its waste management and minimisation activities.

If the authority wants to give grants or advances of money under section 47, it must include a framework for this in the plan. You can find more information about this in section 42. The authority can change its plan or replace it with a new one if it needs to.

If a territorial authority already had a waste management plan under the Local Government Act 1974, it can use this plan as its waste management and minimisation plan.

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Part 4Responsibilities of territorial authorities in relation to waste management and minimisation
Waste management and minimisation plans

43Waste management and minimisation plans

  1. For the purposes of section 42, a territorial authority must adopt a waste management and minimisation plan.

  2. A waste management and minimisation plan must provide for the following:

  3. objectives and policies for achieving effective and efficient waste management and minimisation within the territorial authority's district:
    1. methods for achieving effective and efficient waste management and minimisation within the territorial authority's district, including—
      1. collection, recovery, recycling, treatment, and disposal services for the district to meet its current and future waste management and minimisation needs (whether provided by the territorial authority or otherwise); and
        1. any waste management and minimisation facilities provided, or to be provided, by the territorial authority; and
          1. any waste management and minimisation activities, including any educational or public awareness activities, provided, or to be provided, by the territorial authority:
          2. how implementing the plan is to be funded:
            1. if the territorial authority wishes to make grants or advances of money in accordance with section 47, the framework for doing so.

              1. A territorial authority may amend its waste management and minimisation plan or revoke it and substitute a new plan.

              2. A waste management plan adopted under Part 31 of the Local Government Act 1974 as at the commencement of this section must be treated as if it were a waste management and minimisation plan adopted under this section, and this Part applies to the plan accordingly.