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Schedule 2 – Class 1 Pollutants
Schedule 2 – Class 1 Pollutants [clause 10 Environment Protection (Water Quality) Policy 2015]
The following must not be placed on land where they may enter water, including the stormwater system:
- Agricultural chemicals
- Asbestos
- Biosolids and wastewater treatment sludge
- Brick, bitumen or concrete cutting wastewater
- Building washwater
- Carpet or upholstery cleaning waste
- Chemicals designed for human or animal therapeutic use
- Chemicals listed in Schedule A of the National strategy for the management of scheduled wastes 1992, prepared by ANZECC, as in force from time to time
- Cleaning agents
- Concrete waste
- Condensate from compressors
- Construction and demolition waste (whether or not inert)
- Detergents and their byproducts
- Domestic waste (being waste produced in the course of a domestic activity)
- Engine coolant
- Food or beverage waste
- Fuel dispensing area washwater
- Hard waste (eg vehicles, tyres, batteries, metal parts, piping, electronic equipment and municipal solid waste)
- Hazardous waste
- Human waste
- High pressure water blasting waste
- Liquid waste
- Medical waste
- Motor vehicle servicing or repairs waste
- Oil, grease or lubricants
- Paint and paint scrapings
- Painting washwater
- Paint stripping waste
- Petroleum products
- Photographic chemicals
- Plaster, plaster waste and plaster wastewater
- Pool backwash water
- Pool chemicals
- Putrescible waste (eg food scraps and dead animals that are putrid or likely to become putrid)
- Quarantine waste (waste that is subject to quarantine under the Quarantine Act 1908 of the Commonwealth)
- Radioactive waste (being waste, the management or disposal of which is regulated under the Radiation Protection and Control Act 2021 or a law of the Commonwealth)
- Roof cleaning waste
- Rubbish and litter (eg bottles, cans, cartons, cigarette butts, food scraps, packaging and paper, glass or plastic items or materials)
- Sawdust
- Sewage
- Solvents
- Stain or varnish
- Steam cleaning waste
- Street cleaning waste
- Timber preservatives
- Trade waste
- Washdown water from cleaning animals or animal enclosures
- Washdown water from cleaning vehicles, plant or equipment
- Washdown water from commercial or industrial premises or wharves
- Waste from grease traps.
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Schedule 3 – Class 2 pollutants
Schedule 3 – Class 2 pollutants [clause 11 Environment Protection (Water Quality) Policy 2015]
The following must not be placed in water including the stormwater system:
- Air-conditioning or cooling system wastewater
- Animal faeces
- Fertilisers
- Green waste (eg lawn clippings, leaves and prunings)
- Soil, clay, gravel or sand.
