Requirements for new waste diversion activities covering processing of waste treatment, relevant periods, trial waste diversion activities and evidence and record keeping are outlined in section 10 of the method.
Regarding trial waste diversion activities:
- Applicants are able to trial a source separation activity and remain eligible to implement a new waste diversion activity provided the trial occurred in the activity area during the relevant 24-month period but not within the last 12 months. Material diverted from landfill by the trial can be disregarded for the purposes of establishing that material previously went to landfill.
- If the trial occurred within the last 12 months, the applicant must account for that activity using the requirements for expansion waste diversion activities (see section 11).
Requirements for expansion waste diversion activities covering activity area, evidence and record keeping are outlined in section 11.
Requirements for aggregated waste diversion activities (section 12):
- The activity must contain two or more new waste diversion activities and/or expansion waste diversion activities.
The method identifies four particular types of new, expansion and aggregated waste diversion activities. These activities are;
- a commercial food waste activity
- a municipal food waste activity
- a municipal garden and park waste activity, or
- a municipal food and garden and park waste activity
For each of the activity types above, the method provides optional default waste composition values for the purpose of simplifying abatement calculation. The requirements that must be met are outlined in subsections 13 (2) (5). This methods default values are pre-defined proportions of waste mix types in material collected by the waste diversion activity.
If a source separated activity is not one of the above particular activities, then waste audits (see section 61) must be used to determine the composition of eligible waste diverted by the activity.
Waste audits need to determine an accurate assessment of waste composition and account for seasonal variation across the reporting period. Waste audits need to be repeated according to the schedule defined in subsection 61(3) and need to achieve a 95 per cent confidence interval for eligible organic material diverted from landfill.
Section 61(4) sets out the requirements for a person that conducts a waste audit.
Requirements for charity diversion activities are outlined in section 14.