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Fill material waste code Clean or lightly contaminated soil dug out on site.

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Fill material and excavated spoil: 1 code.

Fill material and excavated spoil

  • Victoria

    Excavated material and fill

    Victoria: The excavated material meets the fill or spoil entry’s contamination boundary.

    When to use N122
Victoria uses N122 for excavated material and fill, as long as its contamination stays within the entry's boundary.

When can Victorian spoil use N122?

N122 excludes the contaminated-soil and acid-sulfate-soil entries. Fill material is industrial waste, not priority waste. Establish the material’s composition and origin before relying on the description.

Does N122 mean the soil can go anywhere?

No. Victorian fill must go to a place authorised to receive it. Assess the contaminants known or reasonably expected against the fill limits. Once it qualifies as fill material, it needs no Waste Tracker and no transport permission.

Which exclusions or special routes apply to the fill material waste code?

Victoria. The fill material determination authorises receiving qualifying fill only when its conditions are met. It doesn’t authorise processing or storage that needs another permission. A declaration of use is a separate immediate-resource-recovery route and can’t authorise applying soil to land.

Tasmania. Clean fill is not generally exempt from Tasmania’s waste rules. The current approved management method allows limited disposal of up to 100 tonnes of qualifying clean fill on a parcel in a calendar year, and only when every condition is met. These include no controlled waste such as asbestos and compliance with planning requirements.

Northern Territory. It doesn’t apply to contaminated fill, remove other duties or authorise arbitrary dumping.

The shared classification and movement limits for fill material waste code are on the Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory pages.

What do you do next with the fill material waste code?

For fill, confirm that the clean-material, determination or approved reuse conditions really apply before arranging delivery. A soil code alone is not acceptance.

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