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 12,000 tonnes of lead waste and scrap from used lead acid batteries to Dansuk Industrial Co. Ltd. in the Republic of Korea 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 Port Botany in Sydney by ship and go directly to the Port of Busan, Republic of Korea from where the waste will travel by road to the recycling facility.
David Swanton
Delegate to the Minister
Environment Protection Branch
Department of the Environment
17 July 2014