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 Nyrstar Australia Pty Ltd, Risdon Road, Lutana, Tasmania 7009 to export up to 1000 tonnes of silver rich sand to Umicore Precious Metals Refining, 14 A Greinerstraat, B 2660, Hoboken in Belgium for recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds.
The waste will be packaged in bags strapped on 4-way pallets, one or two bags per pallet to a maximum gross weight of 1.2 tonnes per pallet. The pallets will be loaded into shipping containers.
The waste will be transported by road from the Nyrstar facility at Ellen Street, Port Pirie, South Australia to the port of Adelaide and will depart by ship from the port of Adelaide.
The waste may transit the port of Fremantle. It will then transit Singapore and
the Suez Canal in Egypt on its voyage to the port of Antwerp in Belgium.
The movement will not transit any other port or roadstead on its voyage to Belgium.
The export would take place in one (1) shipment to occur during a twelve (12) month period commencing on the date of the permit, if granted.
Dr Barry Reville
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
16 October 2012