Trade waste

Liquid trade waste is all liquid waste other than sewage of a domestic nature. This includes waste from:

• business/commercial premises (for example, beautician, florist, hairdresser, hotel, motel, restaurant, butcher, service station, supermarket, dentist)
• community/public premises (including craft club, school, college, university, hospital and nursing home) industrial premises trade activities (eg. mobile carpet cleaner)
• any commercial activities carried out at a residential premises
• saleyards, racecourses and from stables and kennels that are not associated with domestic households
• septic tank pump outs, chemical toilets, marine pump-out facilities and established sites for the discharge of pan content from mobile homes/caravans to the sewerage system

Disposing of trade waste

If your business or facility includes any of the activities above you will be required to fill out a Liquid Trade Waste Application Form.

For further details contact Council, alternatively, our Liquid Trade Waste Regulation Policy can be viewed on our policies page.