Browsing: Resource efficiency, waste

Victoria's new draft energy-from-waste guideline has taken a different direction to that of NSW and doesn't set quantitative limits on the proportion of waste that can be sent for energy recovery.

• NSW introduces waste levy discounts for clean fill, scrap metal residues
  
• Quarry operator has licence suspended
  
• NSW contaminated sites regulation updated

The NSW Upper House has passed a waste bill designed to clamp down on widespread rorting and illegal dumping, with Labor and the Greens both backing the State Government's legislation.

*WA Government to charge business for EPA assessments

*WA Hazardous waste regulations to be revised

*NSW Government announces finalists in environmental excellence awards

The NSW Lower House has passed strengthened waste laws designed to tackle waste industry scams and provide stronger deterrence, but some councils argue the changes will needlessly inflate their waste disposal costs.

• Pilbara not coping with resource sector waste, study says
  
• Battery company and Mobil seek hazardous waste export permits
  
• SITA, Visy and Alex Fraser score Victorian waste grants

• AGL penalised for not making monitoring data public
  
• Environment ministers detail scope of packaging waste RIS
  
• WA mines department issues rehabilitation fund guidance

• Queensland rules out plastic bag charges or bans
  
• NSW EPA approves council plan to manage contamination
  
• NSW issues new pollution orders to Nestlé
  
• Canola mill instructed to investigate odours
  
• Fuel spill at Caltex terminal

• Guidelines propose CSG and coal 'significant impact' criteria
  
• Company seeks permits to import more PNG hazardous waste
  
• Waste hierarchy not etched in stone, WA Government says

• Queensland details environmental conditions for 19 industries
  
• Attorney-General boosts funding for environmental lawyers
  
• Queensland to overhaul waste regulation
  
• Alcoa seeks hazardous waste permit