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 Sims E-Recycling Pty Ltd,
82 Marple Avenue, Villawood, New South Wales 2163 in Australia. The application relates to the export of up to 10 000 metric tonnes of cathode ray tube glass from Australia to Sims Group UK Ltd (Sims UK), Long Marston, Stratford upon Avon, CV37 8AQ in the
United Kingdom for R5 operations, namely the “Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials”.
The transboundary movement would take place in five hundred (500) shipments during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
The waste would depart by ship from Port Botany, Sydney in Australia. Shipments may then transit the ports of: Auckland, Tauranga, and Napier in New Zealand; Manzanillo, in Mexico; the Panama Canal in Panama; Kingston in Jamaica; and Savannah and Philadelphia in the United States of America, en route to Tilbury in the United Kingdom. The waste would then be transported by road to Sims UK in Long Marston, Stratford upon Avon.
Dr Barry Reville
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
10 October 2012