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 REMONDIS, 69 Grindle Road, Rocklea, Queensland 4106. The application relates to the import of up to 10 000 kilograms of fully discharged lithium sulphur dioxide and lithium manganese dioxide type batteries from the Solomon Islands to Swanbank Landfill, Swanbank, Qld 4306, where they will undergo disposal operation D5, ie be disposed of in a specially engineered landfill.
The waste will be shipped from the port of Honiara in the Solomon Islands to the port of Brisbane in Australia, transiting no other ports. The waste will then be transported across land from Brisbane to the Swanbank Landfill site.
The transboundary movement would take place in two (2) shipments during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
Andrew McNee
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
1 July 2013