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Waste Export Ban on mixed plastics- is Australia ready?
In the latest edition of Waste Management Review just out now, National Waste and Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC) CEO Rose Read discusses the waste export ban on mixed plastics and is Australia ready?
NWRIC supports the export bans but is concerned that the pace of developing local markets for recycled plastics through government procurement and the approval and construction of waste plastic sorting and secondary processing infrastructure is too slow.
“There is a real risk that potentially up to half of the waste plastic currently collected through household kerbside yellow bins will either be stockpiled until more sorting or processing capacity comes online or end up in landfill.
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Landfill dust attracts an EPA fine
Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has fined a Bulla company more than $8,000 for breaching its EPA licence by failing to do enough to reduce the potential for dust to blow off its landfill site.
EPA Northern Metropolitan Manager Jeremy Settle said EPA officers discovered the dust problem when they attended the landfill facility in response to reports of a small fire.
“The fire was quickly resolved, but EPA officers saw significant amounts of dust rising from onsite haul roads and a large, exposed stockpile of soil on top of one of the landfill cells, with inadequate controls to prevent dust from leaving the site,” Mr Settle said.