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 15 tonnes of crushed waste fluorescent tubes (Basel Code A1030) from Total Waste Management Limited, PO Box 473, Waigani 131, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.
The waste would be shipped from Port Moresby direct to Newcastle, NSW, then transported to Toxfree’s facility at 42 Heather Street, Heatherbrae NSW 2324, for sorting. The waste would then be transferred to the facility of Dolomatrix Australia Pty Ltd (Dolomatrix), 40 Christie Street, St Marys, NSW 2760, for separation into streams of recyclable waste, one of those streams being phosphor powder containing mercury. The phosphor powder would be stored at the Dolomatrix facility prior to recovery of the mercury at a facility still to be determined.
The waste would undergo recovery operations R13 – Accumulation of material and R4 –Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds.
The import would take place in up to three (3) shipments over a period of up to twelve months, as specified in the permit, if granted.
Andrew McNee
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
9 May 2014