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 Toxfree Australia Pty Ltd (Toxfree) 42 Heather Street, Heatherbrae NSW 2324. The application relates to the importation of up to 500,000 litres of waste oil (Basel Code A3020) from Total Waste Management Limited, PO Box 473, Waigani 131, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.
The proposal is to ship the waste oil directly from Port Moresby either to Newcastle, NSW and transported by road to Toxfree’s Heatherbrae facility for consolidation prior to being forwarded to the Southern Oil Refining facility in Wagga Wagga or to Brisbane, QLD and transported by road to Toxfree’s Coopers Plains facility for consolidation prior to being forwarded to the Southern Oil Refining facility in Yarwun. The choice of shipping route and refining facility would depend on the commercial and logistical circumstances at the time of export. At these facility(s) the waste would be refined into base oil meeting international standards for virgin base oil.
The waste would undergo recovery operations R13 – Accumulation of material and R9 – Used oil re-refining or other reuses of previously used oil.
The import would take place in up to twenty (20) shipments over a period of up to twelve months, as specified in the permit, if granted.
Bruce Edwards
Assistant Secretary
Waste Policy Branch
16 September 2014