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 Supercharge Batteries Pty Ltd,
1B Chicago Avenue, Blacktown, NSW 2148.
The application relates to the export of up to 12 600 tonnes of used lead acid batteries to the recovery facility operated by Evergreen Environmental Resources Inc (Evergreen) located at Santa Mario Industrial Park, Bo' Balasing, Santa Maria 3022 Bulacan in the Philippines.
The waste would be exported by ship from the ports of Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Botany and/or Brisbane and transit Singapore en route to the port of Manilla in the Philippines.
The material would undergo recovery operations R4 and R5 – Recycling/reclamation of metals, metal compounds and other inorganic materials.
The proposed transboundary movement would take place in up to fifty eight (58) shipments within the period specified in the permit, if granted.
Andrew McNee
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
4 December 2013