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Environment Protection Act 2019
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27 Waste management hierarchy
(1) In designing, implementing and managing an action, all reasonable
and practicable measures should be taken to minimise the
generation of waste and its discharge into the environment.
(2) For subsection (1), waste should be managed in accordance with
the following hierarchy of approaches in order of priority:
(a) avoidance of the production of waste;
(b) minimisation of the production of waste;
(c) re-use of waste;
(d) recycling of waste;
(e) recovery of energy and other resources from waste;
(f) treatment of waste to reduce potentially adverse impacts;
(g) disposal of waste in an environmentally sound manner.