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The future of hazardous waste management in Victoria

Hazardous wastes, which are called 'Prescribed Wastes' in Victoria's environment protection laws, can be by-products from producing everyday goods and services, like the manufacture of motor vehicles and plastics, or the dry cleaning of clothes.

The current Environment Protection (Prescribed Waste) Regulations 1998 , and the Industrial Waste Management Policy (Prescribed Industrial Waste) IWMP (PIW) - are both due for review, with the regulations expiring in July 2009.  These two documents have provided the regulatory framework for managing hazardous waste across Victoria for the past 10 years. 

EPA is looking at developing a framework to manage these wastes in the future and seeks to engage with a broad range of stakeholders early in the process to ensure the new regulatory framework delivers sustainable outcomes for the community, the economy and the environment.  

Click on the following link to find out more about Hazardous Wastes.

Brief History of Hazardous Waste Management in Victoria

How to become involved?

EPA has developed a consultation and engagement program to facilitate stakeholder involvement at each step of the review process.  This program can be viewed by clicking on the following link.

• Consultation and Engagement Program (Adobe PDF 132KB)

Stakeholder Engagement Tools

We will be using a range of stakeholder engagement tools to ensure a wide variety of stakeholders have the opportunity to provide recommendations and advice to help develop the new regulatory framework. 

We encourage you to:

• Read the discussion paper (download below)
• Provide feedback by:

• Participating in an interactive workshop (register below) 
  
  and or,

• Provide a written submission to the discussion paper

Discussion paper – "The Future of Hazardous Waste Management in Victoria” ( Adobe PDF file 308KB)
The discussion paper provides background information and poses questions to stimulate ideas and comments on the future management of hazardous waste in Victoria.  The discussion paper will be available for public comment until 29 August 2008.

Discussion paper resources

• New Three Year Review - 2008
• EPA Publication 994 Industrial Waste Management Policy (Prescribed Industrial Waste) Progress Review - 2005

Workshops details and registration

EPA is hosting a series of half-day interactive workshops during August 2008 to stimulate innovative thinking and feedback on the future hazardous waste framework discussion paper.   These workshops will be interactive, outcome focused and independently facilitated to ensure everyone has an opportunity to contribute.

Registrations for these workshops have now closed EPA is committed to making the outcomes and recommendations of these workshops available on this webpage in early September.

If you can’t attend a workshop EPA is interested in all feedback.

If you are unable to attend one of these workshops and would still like to be involved please let EPA know you are interested by either:

Emailing: prescribedwaste@epa.vic.gov.au or
Phoning the EPA information centre: ph.9695 2722 or 1800 444 004

EPA will offer additional workshops if needed.

Further Information or requesting document hardcopies

If you would like any further information, or would like to provide your input to the review, please email prescribedwaste@epa.vic.gov.au

Discussion paper written responses can be emailed to the address above or posted to:

Project Manager – Prescribed Waste
Waste Management Unit
EPA Victoria
GPO Box 4395QQ
Melbourne VIC 3001

Hard copies of documents can be obtained by contacting the EPA info centre, phone: ph.9695 2722 or 1800 444 004

 

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