What is native forest bio-material?
Native forest bio-material is defined in the Protection of Environmental Operations (General) Regulation 1998 as: • bio-material obtained from a plantation in New South Wales in the course of operations that are authorised under the Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999 or in the course of operations that do not require the plantation to be authorized under that Act, or • bio-material obtained from a plantation outside of New South Wales in the course of operations that are authorised under an Act of another State or a Territory that is declared by the regulations to be an Act that corresponds to the Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999, or • sawdust or other sawmill waste, or • waste arising from wood processing or the manufacture of wooden products, other than waste arising from activities (such as wood chipping or the manufacture of railway sleepers) carried out at the location at which the tree is harvested.
