Queensland Numbered Acts

WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING (WASTE LEVY) AMENDMENT ACT 2019 - SECT 9

9 Replacement of ch 7, pt 3 (Reporting by chief executive)

Chapter 7 , part 3 —
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Part 3 - Reporting on waste disposal and recycling

154 Annual report on waste disposal and recycling

(1) The chief executive must, by 31 December in each year, prepare and make publicly available a report that summarises the amounts of waste and recycling reported in the most recently completed financial year.

(2) In preparing the report, the chief executive must have regard to information given to the chief executive under parts 1 and 2 and chapter 3, part 5.

(3) The report must include the following information and, if appropriate, an evaluation of the information—

(a) the total amount of the waste levy paid to the State;

(b) the amount and types of waste on which the waste levy was paid to the State;

(c) the amounts and types of waste on which the waste levy would have been paid if it were not exempt waste;

(d) the number of levyable waste disposal sites in the waste levy zone and non-levy zone that received waste on which the waste levy was paid to the State;

(e) the amounts of annual payments made to local governments under section 73D;

(f) the amounts and types of waste reported as being recycled by local governments;

(g) the amounts and types of waste reported as being recycled by reporting entities;

(h) the amounts and types of waste reported as being disposed of by local governments;

(i) the amounts and types of waste reported as being disposed of by reporting entities;

(j) the amounts and types of waste reported as being the subject of littering or illegal dumping;

(k) the number of product stewardship schemes in effect under this Act;

(l) the number of local governments that have adopted a waste reduction and recycling plan and have reported on the plan;

(m) the number of State entities that have adopted a waste reduction and recycling plan and have reported on the plan;

(n) the number of planning entities that have adopted waste reduction and recycling plans, other than by adopting the waste reduction and recycling plan of a sector of reporting entities;

(o) the number of waste reduction and recycling plans that are in place for sectors of reporting entities.