The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (the department) is producing a series of industry specific guidelines to provide external stakeholders further information on how the department carries out its regulatory functions under Part V Division 3 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986.
The department has released its first guideline in this series - a draft Guideline: Better practice composting in collaboration with the Western Australian branch of the Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA WA). The guideline sets out the department's information requirements for the composting industry and how regulation under Part V of the EP Act will achieve the objectives of the Waste avoidance and resource recovery strategy 2030.
The consultation period closed on 25 November 2020.