4 Instruments for Implementing Strategy

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The Waste Act provides a range of mandatory and discretionary regulatory instruments that can be used to achieve the objectives of the Act. There are in addition a suite of economic and fiscal measures that can play a complementary role to the regulatory instruments. Lastly there are the voluntary initiatives that can be taken by government and citizens, which constitute the mainstay of the strategy. Drawing on the above approach to implementing the waste hierarchy, this section describes the main instruments that will be used as elements of the overall strategy. These will form the building blocks for implementing the waste hierarchy described above.