Section 4: Compliance with environmental principles

A person who generates waste, a waste handler or a product steward shall, in compliance with the environmental principles set out in section 5 of the Act (a) apply measures in the management of waste to prevent harm to human health and ensure safety of human beings; (b) apply measures in the management of waste to prevent pollution, harm to biological diversity and contamination of the wider environment by waste; (c) use best available technologies and best environmental practices to manage waste; and (d) ensure resource efficiency- (i) by the application of the waste management hierarchy and the control or minimisation of the generation of waste to the greatest extent possible; (ii) by promoting proper cyclical use of resources; and (iii) by ensuring proper disposal of circulative resources not put into cyclical use.