{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "compiled": "2026-08-19",
  "note": "Single source for regulatory constants. Calculators read from here. Do not declare rates in page files.",
  "current_financial_year": "2026-27",
  "sources": {
    "qld_waste_levy": {
      "publisher": "State of Queensland",
      "url": "https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/waste-reduction-recycling/disposal-levy/about/levy-rates",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
      "attribution": "© State of Queensland",
      "source_last_updated": "2026-06-26",
      "source_expiry": "2027-06-26",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-19"
    },
    "nga_factors": {
      "publisher": "DCCEEW (Commonwealth)",
      "url": "https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/publications/national-greenhouse-accounts-factors",
      "edition": "2025",
      "supersedes": "2024",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-19",
      "caveat": "NGA Factors must not be used to meet reporting requirements under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.",
      "edition_note": "NGA publishes transport factors per unit of fuel, not per kilometre or per tonne-kilometre. Any t-km figure is derived, not read from a table."
    }
  },
  "waste_levy": {
    "unit": "AUD per tonne",
    "gst": "Not applied when the operator pays the levy to the State. Applied when the operator charges a customer to cover its levy liability.",
    "metro_trajectory": "Increases $10 per tonne each year.",
    "regional_trajectory": "Indexed at the Government Indexation Rate. GIR for 2026-27 to 2028-29 is 3.4 per cent.",
    "rates": {
      "general": {
        "covers": "Municipal solid, commercial and industrial, construction and demolition. Also treated timber sawdust and shavings, and earth contaminated with a hazardous contaminant from land on the EMR or CLR.",
        "metro": {
          "2025-26": 125,
          "2026-27": 135,
          "2027-28": 145,
          "2028-29": 155,
          "2029-30": 165
        },
        "regional": {
          "2025-26": 97,
          "2026-27": 100,
          "2027-28": 103,
          "2028-29": 106,
          "2029-30": null
        }
      },
      "regulated_category_1": {
        "metro": {
          "2025-26": 205,
          "2026-27": 215,
          "2027-28": 225,
          "2028-29": 235,
          "2029-30": 245
        },
        "regional": {
          "2025-26": 192,
          "2026-27": 198,
          "2027-28": 204,
          "2028-29": 210,
          "2029-30": null
        }
      },
      "regulated_category_2": {
        "metro": {
          "2025-26": 155,
          "2026-27": 165,
          "2027-28": 175,
          "2028-29": 185,
          "2029-30": 195
        },
        "regional": {
          "2025-26": 133,
          "2026-27": 137,
          "2027-28": 141,
          "2028-29": 145,
          "2029-30": null
        }
      }
    },
    "applicable_rate_matrix": {
      "_note": "Rate depends on where waste is generated AND where it is disposed.",
      "metro": {
        "metro": "metro",
        "regional": "metro",
        "non_levy": "metro"
      },
      "regional": {
        "metro": "metro",
        "regional": "regional",
        "non_levy": "regional"
      },
      "non_levy": {
        "metro": "metro",
        "regional": "regional",
        "non_levy": "none"
      },
      "interstate": {
        "metro": "metro",
        "regional": "metro",
        "non_levy": "metro"
      }
    },
    "zones": {
      "status": "UNRESOLVED",
      "levy_zone_total_lgas": 39,
      "of_total_lgas": 77,
      "conflict": "levy-rates page (26 Jun 2026) states 10 metro / 29 regional. About-the-levy overview states 12 metro. data.qld.gov.au waste levy zone dataset states 11 metro / 28 regional. All agree the levy zone totals 39.",
      "authority": "Schedule 2, Waste Reduction and Recycling Regulation 2011, as amended by the Waste Reduction and Recycling (Waste Levy) Amendment Regulation 2019.",
      "resolve_via": [
        "https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/",
        "https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/waste-levy-zone-queensland"
      ],
      "platform_current_list": [
        "brisbane",
        "gold coast",
        "sunshine coast",
        "moreton bay",
        "logan",
        "ipswich",
        "redland",
        "noosa",
        "somerset",
        "lockyer valley",
        "scenic rim",
        "toowoomba"
      ],
      "platform_current_count": 12,
      "warning": "Platform list is unverified against Schedule 2. Not authoritative."
    }
  },
  "unsourced": [
    {
      "value": 10.4,
      "unit": "AUD per square metre",
      "label_used": "levy",
      "location": "lotscan.php brief export",
      "status": "NO SOURCE. Every other levy figure on the platform is per tonne. Do not wire until the origin is established or the value is removed."
    }
  ],
  "nga_fuel": {
    "unit": "kg CO2-e per litre",
    "status": "SECONDARY_SOURCE",
    "note": "Diesel combustion factor attributed to NGA Factors 2025. Verify against the DCCEEW workbook (Table 4 / Table 9) before citing as primary. Scope 1 combustion only; scope 3 fuel supply-chain emissions are additional and not yet captured here.",
    "factors": {
      "diesel_scope1_combustion": 2.71
    }
  },
  "road_freight_intensity": {
    "unit": "kg CO2-e per tonne-kilometre",
    "status": "DERIVED",
    "method": "fuel_burn_L_per_100km / 100 * diesel_factor / payload_tonnes",
    "note": "Not an NGA-published value. The platform's long-standing 0.070 reconstructs as a laden, tank-to-wheel, scope-1-only figure at roughly 55-60 L/100km and 22-25 t payload, with no empty-return allowance. Retained only as a reference point; calculators must derive from stated inputs rather than assert this.",
    "legacy_platform_value": 0.07,
    "benchmarks": [
      {
        "source": "GLEC Framework v3.2, Table 8",
        "vehicle": "Articulated 34-40t GVW, average/mixed, 60% load, 17% empty, diesel",
        "value": 0.101,
        "basis": "well-to-wheel, AR6 GWP-100",
        "note": "Higher than a laden tank-to-wheel figure because it includes fuel supply chain and empty running."
      }
    ]
  }
}