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 Hydromet Corporation Pty Limited, Level 9, Suite 903, 1 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia, to export up to 20,000 tonnes of lead waste and scrap from used lead acid batteries to Orzel Bialy S.A. in Poland for recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds.
The transboundary movements would take place in up to one hundred (100) shipments, during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
The movements will leave the Port of Sydney by ship and transit Singapore and Germany en route to Poland from where the waste will travel by road to the recycling facility.
Chris Videroni
Delegate to the Minister
Environment Protection Branch
Department of the Environment
16 December 2013