NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED UNDER THE
HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989
Pursuant to Section 33 of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989, notice is given that an application for a Basel import permit has been received from Parodi & Gore Pty Ltd, trading as Tasmanian Worldwide Shipping (TWS), Suite 12, 3rd Floor, Galleria Building, 33 Salamanca Place, Battery Point 7004 in Tasmania acting on behalf of Institut Polaire Francais - Paul Emile Victor,Technopôle Brest-Iroise, BP 75-29280, Plouzané, France.
The application relates to the import of up to 25 tonnes of solid wastes and up to 17 000 litres of liquid wastes from Dumont d’Urville, the French Antarctic station. The transboundary movement would take place in up to five shipments during the time period specified in the permit, if granted.
The waste is comprised of: compacted recyclable plastic waste; plastic drums and tanks with traces of hydrocarbons; unrinsed steel food cans; unrinsed steel and aluminium beverage cans; unrinsed glass bottles; compacted empty 200 litre steel drums formerly containing petrochemicals; sump oil; hydraulic oil; and flammable non chlorinated organic solvents.
The wastes would be transported by sea from the French Southern and Antarctic Territory, transiting no other ports en route to Hobart in Tasmania. The waste would then be transferred to the TWS depot in Hobart for inspection and sorting before being transported to licensed facilities in Australia to undergo various disposal operations.
The disposal operations are expected to be: D1 – Deposit into or onto land; R1 – Use as a fuel (other than in direct incineration) or other means to generate energy; R3 – Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents; R4 – Recycling/reclamation of metals or metal compounds; R5 – Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials; R9 – Used oil re-refining or other reuses of previously used oil.
Written comments on the permit application may be lodged with the Department within 28 days of Gazette publication addressed to the Director, Hazardous Waste Section, Department of the Environment, GPO Box 787 CANBERRA ACT 2601, or by e-mail at hwa@environment.gov.au. Respondents should be aware that comments will be shared with the Applicant and should not contain commercial-in-confidence information.
Bruce Edwards
Assistant Secretary
Waste Policy Branch
26 November 2014