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 MRI (Aust) Pty Ltd, 20–24 Dennis Street, Campbellfield, Victoria, 3061. The application relates to the export of up to 700 tonnes of waste batteries comprising nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride and lithium ion batteries to Kobar Limited of 296-2 Daechi-ri, Chilseo-myun, Haman-kun Kyung Nam, 637-940, in the Republic of Korea for recovery operations R4–Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds.
The waste will leave Australia by ship from the Port of Melbourne and the Port of Botany in Sydney to the Port of Busan in the Republic of Korea from where it will be transported by road to the Kobar facility.
The transboundary movement would take place in twenty (20) shipments during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
Andrew McNee
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
13 June 2013