NOTICE OF VARIATION TO 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 TES-AMM Australia Pty Ltd, 1 Marple Avenue, Villawood, New South Wales 2162, Australia, has submitted a second variation to an application that was notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. GN 30, published on 1 August 2012. The application relates to the export of cathode ray tube glass waste to SWEEEP Kuusakoski, Gas Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 2QB, in the United Kingdom for recycling/reclamation of metals, metal compounds and other inorganic materials.
The application originally proposed that the Australian ports of departure would be Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. The second variation proposes that Port Botany in Sydney will be the only Australian port of departure.
The application, as now varied, continues to propose that the transboundary movements of 1800 tonnes of the waste would take place in one hundred (100) shipments over twelve (12) months commencing from the date of the permit, if granted. As previously proposed, the movements would transit ports in Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Malta and Italy on their voyage to the port of Tilbury in the United Kingdom.
Dr Barry Reville
Delegate to the Minister
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
22 October 2012