The Queensland Treasury Strategic Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan outlines the department’s waste management practices. It has been developed in accordance with the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 and the State’s waste management strategy: Waste – Everyone’s responsibility: Queensland Waste Avoidance and Resource Productivity Strategy (2014-2024).
The Queensland Productivity Commission’s Office of Best Practice Regulation (OBPR) administers the Queensland Government’s regulatory framework. The framework aims to ensure the development, review and administration of regulation is necessary, effective and efficient, thereby achieving policy objectives while minimising costs on business and the community: