Hazard status of zinc and copper ash, dross and residues under the Hazardous Waste Act
Guidance paper
Environment Australia, April 2001
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Introduction
The Department of the Environment and Heritage is responsible for the implementation and administration of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 ('Act'). The Act implements Australia's obligations under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal ('Basel Convention').
This paper has been prepared by the Department of the Environment and Heritage on the basis of advice from the Hazardous Waste Technical Group, which has been established under the Act to provide advice to the Department of the Environment and Heritage on the operation of the Hazardous Waste Act and related issues arising from Australia's implementation of the Basel Convention. The paper is current as at April 2001. It contains revised concentration cut-off levels for arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium, based on new values adopted by Worksafe Australia in 1999.
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