98Brand owners must keep records

98 Brand owners must keep records

(1) A brand owner must keep a record of the following in respect of each financial year—

(a) the total weight of consumer packaging used by the brand owner in that financial year in each category of material specified in regulation 97;

(b) the number of units of consumer packaging used by the brand owner in that financial year in each category of material specified in regulation 97;

(c) the total weight of material recovered from the post-consumer waste stream by the brand owner in that financial year, in each category of material specified in regulation 97, and the total weight of the following—

(i) the material that was reused and recycled in Australia, by category of material;

(ii) the material that was reused and recycled through export, by category of material;

(iii) the material that was disposed of to landfill, by category of material;

(d) the total amount of embedded energy (in kilojoules) recovered by the brand owner;

(e) the recovery rate for the brand owner's consumer packaging in that financial year, determined in accordance with regulation 96;

(f) the advice provided to consumers in that financial year as to the recovery of the packaging.

(2) A brand owner must—

(a) keep a record of the information set out in subregulation (1) for a period of 5 years; and

(b) make the record available for inspection on request by the Authority.

embedded energy means the sum of all the energy required to produce any item or material or the amount of energy use avoided by using recovered materials rather than new ones (as applicable).