Waste reporting definitions

Rock and/gravel material such as asphalt, road base, railway ballast or processed sandstone.

Exclusions:​ Crushed concrete

Asbestos means the fibrous form of those mineral silicates that belong to the serpentine or amphibole groups of rock-forming minerals including; actinolite, amosite (brown asbestos), anthophyllite, chrysotile (white asbestos), crocidolite (blue asbestos) and tremolite and includes any items made from or containing asbestos such as sheeting, roofing, lagging or pipes.

Exclusions:​ asbestos contaminated soil

Bentonite

Exclusions: VENM

Biosolids: the organic product that results from sewage treatment processes (sometimes referred to as sewage sludge).

Manure: any mixture of manure and biodegradable animal bedding (such as straw).

Bricks, mortar or concrete including bricks with mortar and concrete containing steel reinforcing.

Exclusions:​ Fibre cement

Terracotta roof tiles, pottery, porcelain products.

Exclusions:​ Bricks and concrete

Waste resulting from washing coal, including substances such as coal fines, soil, sand, and rock resulting from that process.

Exclusions: Coal washery rejects (including chitter) that is reprocessed and used for energy generation.

Soil that is contaminated and not suitable for reuse.

Exclusions:​ Soil contaminated with asbestos

Steel cans, scrap steel, car bodies, steel reinforcing.

Exclusions:​ Gas bottles

Food waste from manufacture, preparation, sale or consumption of food, including kerbside food organics bins.

Exclusions:​ Source separated GO or mixed FOGO

Mixed FO and GO including from kerbside food organics and garden organics bins.

Exclusions: Source separated FO or GO

Soft vegetation/garden waste such as grass clippings, small prunings, seaweed, leaves, non-woody weeds, non-woody agricultural waste including from kerbside garden organics bins.

Exclusions: Source separated FO or mixed FOGO, compost, mulches, wood, sawdust, timber, trees and tree stumps

Glass such as windows, bottles, plate glass, glass fines.

Exclusions:​ Perspex, fluorescent tubes and light bulbs

Mixed waste is any waste that contains more than one of the Waste Types. Composite products such as light bulbs, plastic coated timber, mixed waste from commercial or industrial activities.

Exclusions:​ Commingled recyclables

Lead, copper, brass.

Exclusions:​ Aluminium and steel

Gypsum based construction sheeting.

Exclusions:​ Fibre cement, MDF, Masonite, villa board, chipboard and asbestos

Residues from industrial or manufacturing processes such as wool wash, drilling mud, pond waste, slag, filter cake, fibre cement, cell scale.

Exclusions:​ Fly ash or bottom ash

Clay, sand or topsoil.

Exclusions:​ Contaminated soil, and VENM

End-of-life solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and panels including associated components such as inverters, isolators, junction boxes, wiring and cabling, mounting frames and racking.

Exclusions: Energy storage batteries

Trees or tree stumps, raw, treated or painted timber, sawdust, wooden crates, wooden packaging, wooden pallets, wood shavings, MDF, chipboard, particle board and Masonite.

Exclusions:​ Plastic coated timbers