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

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

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Reduce Volume Reduce Hazard Remediate Soils

Re-invest

Three key investment areas

• Infrastructure and implementation projects• Research, development and demonstration projects• Knowledge and capacity-building projects

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

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

HazWaste Fund - Showing you the money

• $30 million to commit over 4 years (2008-12)• Over 65 projects awarded funding (co-

investment)• Spent to date: $9 million • Firm commitments: $12 million• Up to $9 million still available• Stage 1 applications accepted up until June

2012

So How Are We Going?

2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11*0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

70000

80000

Prescribed Industrial Waste Disposed to landfill - Annual trends (Manufacturing waste)

Category B Manufacturing Waste

Financial Year

Tonn

es

07-08 08-09 09-10 10-110

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

Prescribed Industrial Waste Disposal to Landfill - Annual Trend (Manufac-turing Waste)

Category B Manu-facturing Waste

Category C Manu-facturing Waste

Financial Year

Tonn

es

11-12 Projections:

Category B: <25,000 tonnesCategory C: <15,000 tonnes

55,675

31,86034,667

42,570

14,50814,91117,12518,009

So How Are we Going?

2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11*0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

400000

450000

500000

Prescribed Industrial Waste Disposal to Landfill - Annual Trends (Contaminated Soils)

Category B Contaminated Soils

Financial Year

Tonn

es

07-08 08-09 09-10 10-110

100,000

200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

Prescribed Industrial Waste Disposal to Landfill - Annual Trend (Contam-inated Soil)

Category B Contam-inated Soil

Category C Contam-inated Soil

Financial Year

Tonn

es

11-12 Projections:

Category B: <17,000 tonnesCategory C: <350,000 tonnes

30,605

11,881

13,31018,350

429,374

374,360

246,833246,350

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

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

• 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

• Ziltek: Development and commercialisation of RemScan

• RD&D: $100,000

• Delineates contaminated from clean soil, avoiding unnecessary removal of waste

Case Study #3 - Soils

What’s On The Horizon?

Avoidance Re-Use Sector Projects

Questions?

Phone: 1300 372 842 orEmail: business.programs@epa.vic.gov.au

www.epa.vic.gov.au