Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (e-waste) Regulations 2024 (WA)

Western Australia Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007 Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (e-waste) Regulations 2024 Western Australia Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (e-waste) Regulations 2024 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Citation 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Terms used 1 4. Aggregated waste 1 5. Related entities taken into account when determining whether business entity is significant entity 1 6. Exceptions 1 7. Other laws about hazardous waste 1 Part 2 — Prohibition on disposal of e‑waste to landfill 8. E‑waste waste not to be disposed to landfill 1 Part 3 — Specific responsibilities Division 1 — E‑waste service providers 9. Storage, treatment, processing and recycling 1 10. Separation of waste 1 11. Records 1 Division 2 — Significant entities 12. Storage and transfer requirements 1 13. Records 1 Division 3 — Landfill operators 14. Separation of waste 1 Division 4 — Record retention 15. Record retention 1 Part 4 — Exemptions 16. Exemption from requirements of regulations 1 17. Review 1 Schedule 1 — Regulated e‑waste Notes Compilation table 1 Defined terms Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007 Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (e‑waste) Regulations 2024

Part 1 — Preliminary

1. Citation These regulations are the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (e‑waste) Regulations 2024.

2. Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows — (a) Part 1 (other than regulations 3 to 7) — on the day on which these regulations are published on the WA legislation website; (b) the rest of the regulations — on 1 July 2024.

3. Terms used In these regulations — aggregated waste has the meaning given in regulation 4; business entity — (a) means an entity involved in business, industry, trade or commerce; but (b) does not include a public entity; e‑waste service provider means a person who conducts a business or undertaking that includes the collection or receipt of regulated e‑waste for storage, management, aggregation, treatment, processing, sorting, recycling, transfer or disposal; landfill operator means a person who occupies premises that constitute a landfill site; landfill site means premises that are specified in the Environmental Protection Regulations 1987 Schedule 1 category 63, 64, 65, 66 or 89; processed materials means materials that are the result of e‑waste being transformed, through separation and recycling in accordance with the waste strategy, for resource recovery; public entity means — (a) an agency or organisation as those terms are defined in the Public Sector Management Act 1994 section 3(1); or (b) a local government or a regional local government; regulated e‑waste means the types of waste described in Schedule 1 column 2; residual waste means waste that remains after regulated e‑waste has been separated and recycled in accordance with the waste strategy to create — (a) processed materials; or (b) materials suitable to be used in energy recovery; significant entity means a business entity or a public entity that, in relation to any financial year — (a) has 200 or more employees at the beginning of the financial year; or (b) created, during the immediately preceding financial year, 5 or more tonnes of regulated e‑waste.