7Material recovery facility operators

7 Material recovery facility operators

7 Material recovery facility operators

(1) For the purposes of the definition of material recovery facility operator in section 20 of the Act, each of the following is prescribed as a class of material recovery facility operators—

(a) alternative waste treatment plant operators,

(b) bottle crushing service operators,

(c) Lord Howe Island waste facility operators.

(2) In this clause—

bottle crushing machine means a machine designed to crush empty glass containers.

bottle crushing service operator means a person who carries on a business that is or includes—

(a) the supply to owners or operators of premises at which containers are sold of bottle crushing machines for permanent installation at the premises, and

(b) the collection and processing for reuse or recycling of the containers that are crushed by operation of those bottle crushing machines.

Lord Howe Island waste facility operator means a person who holds an environment protection licence under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 authorising the disposal (by application to land), and storage, of waste at specified premises on land in Lord Howe Island.

cl 7: Am 2017 (650), Sch 1 [4] [5].