NSW can't afford to impose best practice limits and conditions on waste infrastructure, says a submission on the state's draft 'energy from waste' policy by the Australian Sustainable Business Group.
After years of steep increases, Victorian landfill levies will only rise by the CPI from 2014 – with the possible exception of untreated organics - under the state's newly-released waste policy.
Australia's competition watchdog has authorised a voluntary, levy-based scheme that aims to ensure half the nation's end-of-life tyres are put to an 'environmentally sound use' within five years.
Environment and water ministers today approved changes to the contaminated sites NEPM, released a draft RIS on managing chemical environmental risks and proposed a national approach to biobanking.
WA EPA chief executive Paul Vogel says a proposed gasification plant in Port Hedland would help the state cope with mining boom waste and can meet strict emission standards.
The Northern Territory Government will keep its container deposit scheme running for eight weeks, a move that buys time to re-establish the scheme's legal validity, but Coca-Cola Amatil has already stopped participating.
A long-delayed NSW draft policy would allow 'energy recovery' from residual municipal waste and other feedstocks, if facilities comply with monitoring requirements and meet thermal efficiency criteria.
Major beverage manufacturers including Coca-Cola Amatil, Schweppes and Lion have had a resounding victory this afternoon in their battle against the Northern Territory's container recycling scheme, with the Federal Court ruling the legislation is invalid and needs re-drafting.