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Impacts of the HazWaste Fund on Hazardous Waste in Victoria

Impacts of the HazWaste Fund on Hazardous Waste in Victoria. Jérôme Fakhry. Strategy. Increase Landfill Levies. Re-Invest. Policy Drivers. Increased Landfill Levies. Category A: banned from landfill Category B: $250/tonne Category C: $70/ tonne Levy administered by EPA Victoria.

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Impacts of the HazWaste Fund on Hazardous Waste in Victoria

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  1. Impacts of the HazWaste Fund on Hazardous Waste in Victoria JérômeFakhry

  2. Strategy IncreaseLandfill Levies Re-Invest Policy Drivers

  3. Increased Landfill Levies • Category A: banned from landfill • Category B: $250/tonne • Category C: $70/tonne • Levy administered by EPA Victoria

  4. Policy Drivers • Review of the regulations • Prescribed Industrial Waste (PIW) defined by hazard, not a list • Focus on resource efficiency, enhancing reuse & recycling • Reduced administrative burden associated with reuse and recycling

  5. HazWaste Fundph: 9695 2722www.epa.vic.gov.au Reduce Volume Reduce Hazard Remediate Soils Re-invest

  6. Three key investment areas • Infrastructure and implementation projects • Research, development and demonstration projects • Knowledge and capacity-building projects

  7. HazWaste Fund - who can apply? • Organisations that: • Dispose hazardous waste to landfill • Generate solid or liquid hazardous waste • Treat, recycle, remediate or reuse hazardous wastes • Own or develop partially or fully contaminated land • And also: • Consultants and research organisations • Technology owners • Hazardous waste landfill owners and operators

  8. HazWaste Fund – Funding process • Stage 1 application: brief form outlining the key details of the project • Stage 2 application: more detailed submission (technical, budget, timelines, project plan, etc.) • Approval: External panel + ministerial sign off • Funding agreement • Project management

  9. HazWaste Fund - Showing you the money • $30 million to commit over 4 years (2008-12) • Over 65projects awarded funding (co-investment) • Spent to date: $9million • Firm commitments: $12 million • Up to $9 million still available • Stage 1 applications accepted up until June 2012

  10. So How Are We Going?

  11. So How Are we Going?

  12. Amongst all HWF projects… • Over 65,000 tonnes have been diverted fromlandfill since the HazWaste Fund began • Over 30,000 tonnes per annum anticipated to be diverted over the next few years • Over 230,000 tonnes per annum of contaminated soils could be remediated over next few years. External Review - Databuild

  13. Case Study #1 - Manufacturing • PQ Australia: Installation of baghouse collector • Infrastructure and Implementation: $600,000 • Recovery of dry glass waste from production of hollow glass microspheres • Elimination of Category B waste + water and energy savings

  14. One Steel Wire Galvanizing: Upgrade of the pre-treatment plant • Infrastructure and Implementation: $600,000 • Replacement of lead heat treatment baths with a fluidised sand bed furnace • Hazardous waste reduction and OHS benefits Case Study #2 - Manufacturing

  15. Ziltek: Development and commercialisation of RemScan • RD&D: $100,000 • Delineates contaminated from clean soil, avoiding unnecessary removal of waste Case Study #3 - Soils

  16. What’s On The Horizon? Avoidance Re-Use Sector Projects

  17. Questions? Phone: 1300 372 842 or Email: business.programs@epa.vic.gov.au www.epa.vic.gov.au

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