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Board Members
Six members are currently appointed to the inaugural Waste and Resource Recovery Board. More information can be found on the Board Members webpage or by clicking on a profile below.
Meeting dates and Board communiques can be found on the Board Meetings webpage.
About the Board
Under the Waste and Resource Recovery Act 2022, the Board consists of between five to seven members appointed by the Minister. The Minister may appoint a person to be a member of the Board, appoint a member of the Board (whom the Minister considers to have expertise or experience in public administration) to be the chairperson of the Board, and appoint a representative of local government as nominated by the Local Government Association of Tasmania. Appointments to the Board are for a period of up to four years, with members being eligible for consecutive re-appointment for one term.
In appointing the members of the Board, the Minister is to ensure that the members are able to make a contribution to the functions of the Board, and have skill, experience and knowledge in one or more of the following matters:
- Waste management
- Remote area waste management
- Resource recovery
- Industry development
- Regional development
- Finance
- Public sector administration
- Risk management
- Corporate governance
- A particular function, or vocational interest, that is relevant to the functions of the Board
Functions of the Board
To provide advice and recommendations to the Minister on matters relevant to the Act, both on the request of the Minister and of its own volition. |
To prepare, promote, implement, review and assess the effectiveness of a waste strategy that is in effect as approved by the Minister. |
To prepare, implement, review and assess the effectiveness of an operational plan that is in effect each financial year. |
To audit and report on the use of funds from the Waste and Resource Recovery Account. |
To promote community, business and industry awareness of, and education in relation to, waste reduction and resource recovery. |
To promote and support State policies and programs relevant to the Act. |
To promote and support access to waste services in remote areas. |
To promote and support coordination and cooperation with statutory authorities, local authorities and industry to prevent waste and promote resource recovery. |
To consult with, and promote and support coordination and cooperation between, organisations (whether or not in the State) with objectives relevant to the Act. |
To administer, for the benefit of charitable recyclers and such other entities as specified by a Ministerial direction given and in effect under section 14 for the purposes of this paragraph, an assistance program to mitigate costs to those bodies resulting from this Act. |
To administer, for the benefit of persons responsible for resource recovery facilities and such other entities as specified by a Ministerial direction given and in effect under section 14 for the purposes of this paragraph, an assistance program to mitigate costs to those bodies resulting from this Act in relation to the disposal of waste determined by the Board to be the necessary residue of the resource recovery activities of those bodies. |
To administer, in respect of public authorities and such other entities as specified by a Ministerial direction given and in effect under section 14 for the purposes of this paragraph, an assistance program to mitigate costs to those bodies resulting from this Act in relation to the collection and disposal of waste determined by the Board to have been unlawfully discarded. |
To promote market development and local infrastructure for resource recovery and recycling of materials. |
To perform any other functions that the Board has under this or any other Act. |
To perform any other functions that may be prescribed. |
In the performance of its functions, the Board is to further the improvement of waste management and resource recovery; and further the objectives of the State's resource management and planning system set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994.
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