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Environmental Protection Act 1990

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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What to do with it
As published

SCHEDULE 2B Categories of waste

1 Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below. 2 Off-specification products. 3 Products whose date for appropriate use has expired. 4 Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc, contaminated as a result of the mishap. 5 Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (e.g. residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers, etc.). 6 Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts, etc.). 7 Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts, etc.). 8 Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms, etc.). 9 Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters, etc.). 10 Machining or finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales, etc.). 11 Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues, oil field slops, etc.). 12 Adulterated materials (e.g. oils contaminated with PCBs, etc.). 13 Any materials, substances or products whose use has been banned by law. 14 Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g. agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards, etc.). 15 Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land. 16 Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the above categories.

Your change, as a redline

SCHEDULE 2B Categories of waste

1 Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below. 2 Off-specification products. 3 Products whose date for appropriate use has expired. 4 Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc, contaminated as a result of the mishap. 5 Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (e.g. residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers, etc.). 6 Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts, etc.). 7 Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts, etc.). 8 Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms, etc.). 9 Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters, etc.). 10 Machining or finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales, etc.). 11 Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues, oil field slops, etc.). 12 Adulterated materials (e.g. oils contaminated with PCBs, etc.). 13 Any materials, substances or products whose use has been banned by law. 14 Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g. agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards, etc.). 15 Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land. 16 Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the above categories.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.

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Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.

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