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Environment protection publications and resources

 

Latest releases

  • Assessment of hazardous waste infrastructure needs and capacities in Australia 2022 - 2022
  • Enabling design for environmental good - 2022
  • Framework for understanding, measuring and communicating waste prevention - 2022
  • Australian Environmental Criteria for Persistent, Bioaccumulative and/or Toxic Chemicals - 2022
  • Australian hazardous waste data and reporting standard 2022 edition - 2022
  • Hazardous Waste in Australia 2021
  • Fourth independent review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 - 2021
  • Discussion Paper for Non-road diesel engines - evaluating a national approach to managing emissions - 2021
  • Summary of stakeholder engagement on technical aspects of options to manage emissions from non-road diesel engines - 2021

Air quality

Books and reports

  • National Clean Air Agreement – work plan 2021-23 - 2022
  • National clean air agreement - 2018–2020 work plan review report - 2022
  • Discussion Paper for Non-road diesel engines - evaluating a national approach to managing emissions - 2021
  • Summary of stakeholder engagement on technical aspects of options to manage emissions from non-road diesel engines - 2021
  • National Clean Air Agreement 2018-2020 work plan - 2018
  • Cost Recovery Implementation Statement: Regulating emissions from non-road engines and propulsion marine engines 2017-18 - 2018
  • National Clean Air Agreement - 2015

Biotechnology

Books and reports

  • Fate of manufactured nanomaterials in the Australian environment - 2010
  • Best practice and current practice in ecological risk assessment for genetically modified organisms - 2004
  • Inductive hazard analysis for GMOs - 2004
  • Ecological impacts of GM cotton on soil biodiversity - 2004
  • Environmental risks associated with viral recombination in virus resistant transgenic plants - CSIRO, 2002

Brominated flame retardants

Books and reports

  • Assessment of concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in aquatic environments in Australia - 2006
  • Assessment of concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in indoor environments in Australia - 2006
  • Assessment of concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the Australian population: levels in blood - 2006

Brochures and fact sheets

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants (PBDEs)

Further information

  • Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the Australian population:levels in human milk
  • Interim public health risk assessment of certain PBDE congeners

Chemicals management

  • Australian Environmental Criteria for Persistent, Bioaccumulative and/or Toxic Chemicals - 2022
  • Ancillary Document for the PFAS NEMP 2.0 - 2020
  • Australia's National Implementation Plan - Obligations under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) - 2006
  • Cost and benefit analysis of Australia phasing down mercury - 2018
  • Lead Alert - Six step guide to painting your home - Fifth edition, 2014
  • National profile of chemicals management infrastructure in Australia - 1998
  • PFAS National Environment Management Plan 2.0 - 2020
  • PFAS National Environment Management Plan 1.0 - 2020

Circular economy

Books and reports

  • Enabling design for environmental good - 2022
  • Framework for understanding, measuring and communicating waste prevention - 2022

Dioxins

  • Characterisation and estimation of dioxin and furan emissions from waste incineration facilities - 2001
  • Dioxins in food dietary exposure assessment and risk characterisation - technical report series no 27 - 2004
  • Incineration and dioxins: review of formation processes - 1999
  • Proposed risk assessment methodology discussion paper - 2003
  • Sources of dioxins and furans in Australia - air emissions - 2002

National Dioxins Program technical reports

  • Dioxins emissions from bushfires in Australia - technical report no 1 - 2004
  • Dioxins emissions from motor vehicles in Australia - technical report no 2 - 2004
  • Australian inventory of dioxin emissions - technical report no 3 - 2004
  • Dioxins in ambient air in Australia - technical report no 4 - 2004
  • Dioxins in soil in Australia - technical report no 5 - 2004
  • Dioxins in aquatic environments in Australia - technical report no 6 - 2004
  • Dioxins in fauna in Australia - technical report no 7 - 2004
  • Dioxins in agricultural commodities in Australia - technical report no 8 - 2004
  • Dioxins in the Australian population: levels in blood - technical report no 9 - 2004
  • Dioxins in the Australian population: levels in human milk - technical report no 10 - 2004
  • Ecological risk assessment of dioxins in Australia - technical report no 11 - 2004
  • Human health risk assessment of dioxins in Australia - technical report no 12 - 2004
  • Dioxins in Australia: a summary of the findings of studies conducted from 2001 to 2004 - 2004 - Community summary

Hazardous waste

Forms and guidelines

  • Applying for a permit - application forms

Books and reports

  • Assessment of hazardous waste infrastructure needs and capacities in Australia 2022 - 2022
  • Australian waste and resource recovery infrastructure database - 2022
  • Australian hazardous waste data and reporting standard 2022 edition - 2022
  • Hazardous Waste in Australia - 2021
  • Hazardous waste tracking and data system - 2019
  • Hazardous waste in Australia - 2019
  • Australian hazardous waste data and reporting standard - 2019
  • Post Trial Report for Fire Fighting Foam Co-processing at Cement Australia’s Fisherman’s Landing Kiln - 2018
  • Spent pot lining project (feasibility of an agreement based approach to clear stockpiles) - Final national summary report
  • Spent pot lining project (feasibility of an agreement based approach to clear stockpiles) - Peer review report - 2017
  • Annual reports - information about the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Act is published in departmental annual reports
  • Lithium-ion battery consultation report - 2016
  • Waste lithium-ion battery projections - 2016
  • Australia’s hazardous waste generation data (2014) reported to the Basel Convention Secretariat - 2016
  • Contaminated soil wastes in Australia – 2014
  • Estimate of the cost of hazardous waste in Australia – 2014
  • Hazardous Waste in Australia 2017 - 2017
  • Hazardous waste in Australia – 2015
  • Hazardous waste infrastructure needs and capacity assessment - 2015
  • Hazardous waste pathways – 2015
  • Hazardous waste reform proposal analysis – 2015
  • The health and environmental impacts of hazardous wastes: impact profiles – 2015
  • Improving Australia's reporting on hazardous waste under the Basel Convention – 2014
  • A review of data on lead-acid batteries entering Australia and arising as waste - 2014
  • A study into the feasibility of a nationally consistent system for tracking controlled wastes – 2015
  • Transport and environmental regulation of hazardous waste - opportunities for harmonisation – 2015
  • The Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 - a National Competition Policy Review - February 2001
    • Government response to the National Competition Policy Review - June 2001

Legislative amendments and Evidentiary certificates

  • Declaration extending the meaning of hazardous waste - classification under foreign laws: Thailand - May 2004
  • Evidentiary certificate on electronic equipment under warranty - March 2005
  • Evidentiary certificate on zinc ash - May 2005
  • Evidentiary certificate on zinc scrap - May 2005

Product emissions standards

Books and reports

  • Cost Recovery Implementation Statement: Regulating emissions from non-road engines and propulsion marine engines 2021-22 - 2021

Brochures and fact sheets

  • Guide to Australian certification under the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 - 2020
  • Guide to exemptions under the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 - 2020
  • Guide to importing items regulated by the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 - 2020
  • Product emissions standards: information for customs brokers - 2020
  • Product emissions standards: information for importers and manufacturers - 2020
  • Product emissions standards: information for retailers - 2020
  • Types of products covered by the new emissions standards - 2020

Scheduled waste

Books and reports

  • Collection and destruction of unwanted farm and household chemicals: discussion paper - ANZECC, June 1997
  • Hexachlorobenzene waste management plan - ANZECC, November 1996
  • National strategy for the management of scheduled wasten - ANZECC, November 1992
  • Organochlorine Pesticides
    • Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) trade or common use names - scheduled wastes fact sheet number 5 (revised) - April 1997
    • Organochlorine pesticides waste management plan - ANZECC, June 1999
    • Safe handling of organochlorine pesticides on farms - 1999
  • Polychlorinated Biphenyls
    • Identification of PCB-Containing Capacitors - An information booklet for electricians and electrical contractors - ANZECC, 1997
    • Monitoring of polychlorinated biphenyls in Australia - September 1998
    • Polychlorinated biphenyls management plan - ANZECC, April 2003 edition
    • Review of the PCB management plan: discussion paper - August 2001
  • Persistent lipophilic contaminants and other chemical residues in the southern hemisphere - 1998
  • Review of industry waste reduction scheme for crop protection and animal health product containers and drumMUSTER - December 2000
  • Schedule X
  • Scheduled wastes: appropriate technologies for the treatment of scheduled wastes - November 1997
  • Treatment technologies for destruction or management of arsenic wastes - May 1998

Used oil recycling

Fact sheets & brochures

  • Used motor oil - a valuable resource
  • Why we should recycle used motor oil

Books & reports

  • Annual reports - information about the Operation of the Product Stewardship for Oil Program and the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 is published in departmental annual reports
  • Australian Government response to the third independent review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 - 2016
  • Fourth independent review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 - 2021
  • Third independent review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 - 2013
  • Second Independent Review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 - Final Report 2008
  • Independent Review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 - May 2004
  • Independent Review of the Transitional Assistance Element of the Product Stewardship for Oil (PSO) Program - March 2004
  • Product Stewardship Arrangements for Oil Administrative Guidelines - 2001 (amended 2005)

Waste and recycling

  • Australian Government response to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee report: Operation of the South Australian and Northern Territory container deposit schemes - June 2013
  • Australian Government response to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee Report: The Environment Protection (Beverage Container Deposit and Recovery Scheme) Bill 2009 - 2010
  • Government response to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee Report: Management of Australia's waste streams (including consideration of the Drink Container Recycling Bill 2008) - February 2010

National waste policy

  • National waste policy reports

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