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Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020
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#### 15 Definition of waste material
(1) Waste material means any thing (including a substance or mixture of substances) that is:
(a) discarded, rejected or left over from an industrial, commercial, domestic or other activity; or
(b) surplus to or a by‑product of an industrial, commercial, domestic or other activity; or
(c) prescribed by the rules.
(2) Waste material can be a gas, liquid, solid or energy, or a combination of any of them.
(3) A thing can be waste material whether or not:
(a) it is of value; or
(b) it is or may be processed, recycled, re‑used or recovered.
Chapter 2—Regulating the export of waste material