New Zealand Gazette – 2004 – No. 174

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✨ Hazardous Substances Notice

22 DECEMBER 2004
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 174
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(b) sited so that the risk of contamination of people, crops, animals and the environment is minimized.

(3) While persistent organic pollutants are in their possession and control collectors must comply with:

(a) all relevant requirements of NZS 8409:2004 including in particular section 3 (Land transport of agrichemicals) section 4 (Storage and supply of agrichemicals) and section 7 (Emergency preparedness and management); and

(b) the controls set out in the schedule to this notice.

(4) This clause shall not apply to the storage of small amounts of persistent organic pollutants for use as analytical standards or for research and development in a laboratory that are the subject of an approval under section 30 of the Act.

Disposal of persistent organic pollutants

(1) For the purposes of section 66A of the Act, the following methods shall comprise environmentally sound disposal of persistent organic pollutants —

(a) by treating the substance using a method that changes the characteristics or composition of the substance so that the substance or any product of such treatment is no longer a persistent organic pollutant and is not a hazardous substance; or

(b) by exporting the substance from New Zealand as waste for environmentally sound disposal provided that such export complies with the relevant requirements of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal and the OECD Decision C(2001)107 on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations.

(2) The holder of polychlorinated biphenyls no longer used in accordance with an exemption under section 25C of the Act must ensure that they are disposed of in accordance with subclause (1).

(3) In subclause (1)(a), treating the substance does not include—

(a) application to or discharge to any environmental medium; or

(b) dilution of the substance with any other substance before discharge into the environment; or

(d) depositing the substance in an incinerator unless in doing so the substance is treated in accordance with subclause (1)(a).

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🏥 Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Persistent Organic Pollutants) Notice 2004 (continued from previous page)

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