Western Australian Repealed Regulations Western Australian Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) In these
regulations —
"Agreement" has the same meaning as it has in
section 6(1) of the National Environment Protection Council (Western
Australia) Act 1996 ;
"brand owner" means a person who —
(a) for
a product other than an imported product — owns, or is the licensee
of, a trade mark under which the product is sold whether or not the trade mark
is registered;
(b) for
an imported product — imports the product; or
(c) for
in-store packaging — supplies the packaging for use as primary
packaging;
"consumer packaging" means packages made of any
material, or combination of materials, for the containment, protection,
marketing, or handling of retail consumer products;
"Covenant" means the agreement of
2 July 1999 called The National Packaging Covenant and referred to
in the NEPM-UPM;
"industry" means any manufacturing, industrial,
commercial, wholesale, or retail activity or process that can result in the
generation, recycling, treatment, transport, storage, or disposal of waste;
"in-store packaging" means packaging, of any
material, supplied to a consumer at the point of sale of a product for the
containment, protection, handling, or carriage of the product;
Examples of
“in-store packaging” —
1. Plastic or paper carry bags.
2. Take-away food containers.
"kerbside recycling collection service" means a
domestic waste collection service by which domestic solid waste is collected
from the roadside for recycling;
"NEPM-UPM" means the NEPM cited as the National
Environmental Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure ;
"owner’s packaging" means consumer packaging
in which a brand owner’s products are sold;
"recovery rate" means the rate at which the brand
owner’s consumer packaging material is recovered using the
equation —
where —
“ R ”
means the recovery rate;
“ WR ”
means the weight of the brand owner’s consumer packaging material
recovered;
“ WS ”
means the weight of the brand owner’s consumer packaging material sold
in Australia;
"recyclable", in relation to packaging for a
product, means reasonably able to be recovered in Australia through a
collection or drop-off system, and able to be reprocessed and used as a raw
material for the manufacture of another product;
"recycled", for a product, means the product is
recovered and used as a raw material to produce another product;
"Signatory" means —
(a) a
signatory to the Covenant; or
(b) a
person who accedes to the Covenant after the Covenant is made.
(2) In these
regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, words and expressions have
the same meanings as in clause 3 of the NEPM-UPM.
(3) Examples and notes
in these regulations are provided to assist understanding and do not form part
of these regulations.