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 Toll Remote Logistics, Level 9, 145 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4010. The application relates to the import from Timor Leste (East Timor) of up to 5000 kilograms of fully discharged lithium sulphur dioxide and lithium manganese dioxide type batteries to Swanbank Landfill, Swanbank, Queensland for disposal operation D5, in a ‘specially engineered landfill (eg placement onto lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc)’.
The waste will leave East Timor by ship from the port of Dili. The waste will transit no other ports on its voyage to the port of Darwin in Australia. The waste will then be transported by road from Darwin to the Swanbank Landfill site in Queensland.
The transboundary movement would take place in one (1) shipment during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
Chris Videroni
Delegate to the Minister
Acting Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
1 February 2013