Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Waste material means any thing (including a substance or mixture of substances) that is:
(a) discarded, rejected or left over from an industrial, commercial, domestic or other activity; or
(b) surplus to or a by - product of an industrial, commercial, domestic or other activity; or
(c) prescribed by the rules.
(2) Waste material can be a gas, liquid, solid or energy, or a combination of any of them.
(3) A thing can be waste material whether or not:
(a) it is of value; or
(b) it is or may be processed, recycled, re - used or recovered.