New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WASTE AVOIDANCE AND RESOURCE RECOVERY ACT 2001 - SECT 15

15 Extended producer responsibility schemes

(1) For the purposes of this Part, an
"extended producer responsibility scheme" is a scheme for giving effect to an environmental policy in which the producer's responsibility for a product (including physical or financial responsibility) is extended to the post-consumer stage of the product's life-cycle.

(2) Any such scheme includes a scheme for product stewardship (that is, shared responsibility for the life-cycle of products including the environmental impact of the product from the extraction of virgin materials, to manufacturing, to consumption and through to and including ultimate disposal and post-disposal consequences).

(3) In this Part--

"producer" of a product includes a supplier of the product in this State or person having a proprietary interest in the name under which the product is supplied in this State.

"product" includes any substance.