31. (1) This Part applies to the owner of a building or group of buildings that has at least 10,000 square metres of floor area for use as offices.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), “group of buildings” means two or more buildings where,
(a) each of the buildings has the same ownership, and
(b) each of the buildings is in proximity to at least one other of the buildings such that there is at most one building or other real property of different ownership located between the two.
(3) For purposes of determining, under subsection (2), whether there is at most one building or other real property of different ownership located between two buildings, the following properties shall not be counted: public roads; public parks; and any land over which the public has a general right of access.
32. (1) The owner shall conduct a waste audit covering the waste generated at the building. The audit shall also address the extent to which materials or products used by the owner consist of recycled or reused materials or products.
(2) After conducting the waste audit, the owner shall prepare a written report of the audit.
(3) In every year following the initial waste audit, the owner shall update the audit and prepare an updated written report.
33. (1) The owner shall prepare a written waste reduction work plan, based on the waste audit, to reduce, reuse and recycle waste generated at the building.
(2) In every year following the preparation of the initial waste reduction work plan, the owner shall prepare an updated written plan.
34. The owner shall implement the waste reduction work plan as updated.
35. The waste reduction work plan shall include measures for communicating the plan to the owner’s employees who work at the building and to any persons who occupy premises in the building as tenants of the owner and, as a minimum, those measures shall require,
(a) that the plan or a summary be posted in places where most employees and tenants will see it; and
(b) if a summary is posted, that any employee or tenant who requests to look at the plan be allowed to do so.
