5.1.5 The role of industry

5.1.5(1)
With respect to industry, the NWMS envisages an important role for industry within a co-regulatory approach to achieving the objectives of the Act. The primary instrument for achieving this vision is the Industry Waste Management Plan. Private sector representative bodies have an important role to play in ensuring that the provisions of the Act are understood, implemented, and complied with by business and industry. The uptake of cleaner technology practices will also be a necessary step in the process of achieving waste minimisation.

5.1.5(2)
Private service providers play key roles in all stages of waste management, including in waste service delivery. An expansion of waste services to unserviced communities will require municipalities to explore alternative service delivery mechanisms, including public private partnerships, and the private sector is encouraged to actively engage in making universal service provision a reality. The private sector should also respond creatively to new technologies in the fields of waste to energy conversion and hazardous waste disposal, and establish capacity in these areas as technologies become commercially viable.