100Councils must provide information

100 Councils must provide information

Reg. 100(1) amended by S.R. No. 115/2023 reg. 13.

(1) A council (or, if the Authority so determines, a group of councils) in which a kerbside recycling collection service or other municipal materials recovery service is provided, must provide the following information to the Authority, in relation to a financial year—

(a) the percentage of households in the municipal district that is serviced by the kerbside recycling collection or other municipal materials recovery service;

(b) the participation rate in any such service;

(c) the number of premises covered by the service and whether the tenements are residential tenements or other kinds of tenement;

(d) the per premises fee charged for recycling collection services;

(e) the total weight of recyclable material collected at the kerbside or by other municipal materials recovery services by material type;

(f) if the material collected is sorted—

(i) the total weight of each material type sold or sent for secondary use, including energy recovery; and

(ii) the total weight of the residual fraction sent to landfill by material type, if practicable.

(2) Each council or group of councils must ensure that any new or novated contract with a recycling collection service requires the contractors to provide any information to the council or group of councils that is needed to supply the information mentioned in subregulation (1).

(3) If a council is subject to current contract conditions which prevent it from complying with this regulation, the Authority may take any steps that it considers necessary to ensure that the information required under this regulation is provided to the Authority.

(4) The Authority must maintain the confidentiality of any commercially sensitive information provided under this regulation unless—

(a) the relevant parties consent to the release of the information; or

(b) the Authority is required by any law or court to release it; or

(c) the information is aggregated with other information so as to conceal its source; or

(d) in the opinion of the Authority, it is in the public interest to release it.

(5) A council or group of councils must provide a report under subregulation (1) within 3 months after the end of the financial year to which the report relates.

(6) The Authority must ensure reporting on participation in complementary collection systems for recyclables.

(7) In this regulation—

materials recovery service means any service to collect, sort and preprocess materials recovered from the waste stream, including kerbside recycling collections, drop-off collection systems, public place collection and industrial and commercial recycling collection systems.