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 has been received from Alcoa Portland Aluminium Pty Ltd, Quarry Road, Portland, Victoria 3305, Australia, to export up to 12,000 tonnes of spent pot liner waste to JBM International Ltd, Kingsilver Refinery, Hixon, Staffordshire, ST18 0PY, in the United Kingdom for recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials.
The transboundary movements would take place in four hundred and eighty (480) shipments over three years commencing from the date of the permit, if granted.
The containers will be transported by road and loaded onto a ship at the Port of Melbourne, Australia. The movements will transit Singapore, Malaysia (Port of Kelang), Sri Lanka (Colombo), Egypt (Port Said and Suez Canal), Germany (Bremerhaven and Hamburg), France (Le Havre), Netherlands (Rotterdam) and Belgium (Zeebrugee) on their voyage to the port of Southampton or Felixstowe in the United Kingdom. From there they will travel by road to the facility.
Dr Barry Reville
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
30 October 2012