NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS 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 four similar applications have been received from Hazmat Services Pty Ltd, 42 Heather Street, Heatherbrae, NSW 2324. The applications relate to the importation of four different types of waste from Total Waste Management Limited, Allotment 32, Section 140, Walter Bay Industrial Center, Building 9, Scratcheley Road, Badili, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.
One of the applications is for up to 50 000 litres of waste resins to undergo recycling/reclamation R1 – Use as a fuel (other than in direct incineration). The other three applications are for wastes to undergo disposal operation D9 - Physico chemical treatment: up to 50 000 litres of waste acids; up to 50 000 litres of waste bases; and up to 10 000 kilograms of waste oxidisers.
The wastes would be shipped from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea to the port of Newcastle, NSW, and transported by road to the facility of Transpacific Technical Services Ltd located at Raven Street, Kooragang, NSW 2304, where they would undergo the above processing.
The import of each waste would take place in up to six (6) shipments over twelve months commencing from the date of the relevant permit, if granted.
Andrew McNee
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
5 July 2013