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Waste Minimisation Act 2008

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

51: Requirements for waste assessment

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"Checking how to manage waste in your area and planning for the future"

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When you do a waste assessment, it must include some important information. You need to describe the services that collect, recycle, recover, treat, and dispose of waste in your area. You also need to forecast what services will be needed in the future.

You have to think about options to meet those future needs and say which ones you think are suitable. Your territorial authority must explain its role in meeting those needs and propose how to do it, including any new infrastructure.

Your proposals must protect public health and promote good waste management. You do not need to assess individual properties, but you must consider how important the information is, how hard it is to get, and what resources you have.

If getting some information is too hard or expensive, you must say so and explain how it affected your assessment. When making your assessment, you must try your best to make it full and balanced, and you must talk to the Medical Officer of Health.

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

51Requirements for waste assessment

  1. A waste assessment must contain—

  2. a description of the collection, recycling, recovery, treatment, and disposal services provided within the territorial authority's district (whether by the territorial authority or otherwise); and
    1. a forecast of future demands for collection, recycling, recovery, treatment, and disposal services within the district; and
      1. a statement of options available to meet the forecast demands of the district with an assessment of the suitability of each option; and
        1. a statement of the territorial authority's intended role in meeting the forecast demands; and
          1. a statement of the territorial authority's proposals for meeting the forecast demands, including proposals for new or replacement infrastructure; and
            1. a statement about the extent to which the proposals will—
              1. ensure that public health is adequately protected:
                1. promote effective and efficient waste management and minimisation.

                2. An assessment is not required to contain any assessment in relation to individual properties.

                3. Information is required for an assessment to the extent that the territorial authority considers appropriate, having regard to—

                4. the significance of the information; and
                  1. the costs of, and difficulty in, obtaining the information; and
                    1. the extent of the territorial authority's resources; and
                      1. the possibility that the territorial authority may be directed under the Health Act 1956 to provide the services referred to in that Act.

                        1. However, an assessment must indicate whether and, if so, to what extent, the matters referred to in subsection (3)(b) and (c) have impacted materially on the completeness of the assessment.

                        2. In making an assessment, the territorial authority must—

                        3. use its best endeavours to make a full and balanced assessment; and
                          1. consult the Medical Officer of Health.