Waste disposal categories: characteristics and thresholds

You need to know what’s in your waste to handle it properly. This document helps you: assess certain wastes, including total and leachable concentrations determine the correct waste disposal...

Waste codes

This is a quick guide for anyone who handles reportable priority waste: waste producers accredited consigners waste transporters waste receivers. You must inform us when reportable waste changes hands...

Derrimut fire science report

Background On 10 July 2024, a large fire occurred at a chemical factory at 118 Swann Drive, Derrimut. The fire burned for approximately 6 hours before being controlled by firefighters. The factory...

Separation distance and landfill buffer guidelines

Guidance for separation distances and landfill buffers gives advice on how to manage areas around landfills and what uses are suitable there...

Maribyrnong River: Risk assessment with consumption of recreationally caught fish

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are a large group of manufactured chemicals. They have been used for several decades in aqueous film-forming foams such as firefighting foams, and...

Annual Report Card – Port Phillip, Western Port and Gippsland Lakes July 2022 to June 2023

Port Phillip Bay, Western Port Bay and the Gippsland Lakes are Victoria’s largest coastal waterbodies. Report Card 2022-23 looks at water quality between July 2022 and June 2023. We compare results...

Arsenic bioavailability in mine waste

Bendigo and other parts of Victoria were centres of large goldmining activity in the 1800s and early 1900s. A byproduct of these operations were mine wastes such as calcined sand and grey sands...

Investigating soil arsenic concentrations across Bendigo

Bendigo and other parts of Victoria were centres of large goldmining activity in the 1800s and early 1900s. A byproduct of these operations were mine wastes such as calcined sand and grey sands. These...

Guidelines for effluent dispersal and recycling systems

Effluent dispersal and recycling systems (EDRS) are used to manage treated onsite wastewater...

Guidelines for onsite wastewater management

Onsite Wastewater Management Systems (OWMS), also known as septic systems, manage wastewater at residential, community and business premises...