The Newman Government has already effectively abolished Queensland's levy on landfill disposal of industrial waste by setting the rate to zero, but is poised to go one step further and remove legislative provisions permitting the imposition of a levy.
The Victorian Government has proposed a new waste policy that abandons the existing target-based approach and explicitly rejects a waste hierarchy that automatically categorises 'waste to energy' as inferior to re-use and recycling.
A Victorian court has fined an earthmoving company $50,000 and ordered it to publicise its offences and penalty on its website, after it dumped industrial waste at a cemetery and provided misleading information to the EPA.
The Senate today agreed to a committee inquiry into pricing practices of companies involved in the South Australian and Northern Territory container deposit schemes, and instigated a separate inquiry into a bill on wind farm noise.
ANSTO plans to store medium-level radioactive waste due to be returned by France at its Lucas Heights facility in Sydney, because the national waste repository in the Northern Territory won't be completed in time.
Generators of high-volume homogeneous solid wastes – such as contaminated soils and vehicle recycling residues – stand to benefit from NGER guidelines on emissions measurement procedures that are being finalised by the Clean Energy Regulator in consultation with landfill operators.
The NSW EPA might launch Court of Criminal Appeal proceedings after the Land and Environment Court ruled its attempt to prosecute a company and its director could not succeed because the rubble and soil transported to a site was not waste.
