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Air quality is important to the health and wellbeing of all Victorians. Most air pollution comes from industry, motor vehicles and domestic wood burning.
EPA plays a role in protecting the community from noise pollution.
Human health and wellbeing relies on the quality of our environment every day.
Free apps to help protect health and the environment.
Many industrial activities require works approvals and licences from EPA.
EPA helps protect Victorians’ health from potential environmental hazards.
EPA works to protect Victoria from pollution during major infrastructure projects.
EPA periodically reviews environmental policy and regulation.
Guidance for business and industry, including licensing, works approvals and planning.
Information about the fees and charges levied by EPA.
EPA’s organisational strategy sets out five goals and how we'll work with Victorians to achieve them.
EPA welcomes the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into EPA.
EPA works with the community, businesses and other organisations to protect the environment.
EPA recognises staff who are leaders in the areas of air quality, inland water, marine water, waste, landfill, land and groundwater, and odour.
The process to submit complaints about the conduct of an EPA authorised officer.
The primary legislation for waste management in Victoria is the Environment Protection Act 1970. Primary legislation provides the regulatory framework for society by imposing restrictions and controls on the activities of individuals and corporate bodies.
A central concept to waste management in Victoria is that of resource efficiency. The Act establishes the waste hierarchy for Victoria, which provides a list of preferences for management options:
Under the Act, EPA can create subordinate legislation, such as waste management polices (WMPs), State environment protection policies (SEPPs) and Regulations. Subordinate legislation is used to implement the provisions outlined in the primary legislation (or Act) and its powers cannot exceed those provided in the primary Act. The key subordinate legislation for the regulation and management of hazardous wastes, known as prescribed industrial wastes (PIW) in Victoria's environment protection laws, is provided through the Environment Protection (Industrial Waste Resource) Regulations 2009, which, in July 2009, replaced the Environment Protection (Prescribed Waste) Regulations 1998, and the Industrial Waste Management Policy (Prescribed Industrial Waste) 2000. Guidance for the new, streamlined regulatory framework is provided in the Industrial waste resource guidelines, an easy-to-use web-based system for finding guidance documents. Subordinate legislation for waste management in Victoria is listed below. These instruments help to define objectives for environmental quality and programs for the management of specific waste issues.
Page last updated on 2 Aug 2017