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Latest releases
- Ancillary Document for the PFAS NEMP 2.0 - 2020
- Types of products covered by the new emissions standards - 2020
- Product emissions standards: information for retailers - 2020
- Product emissions standards: information for importers and manufacturers - 2020
- Product emissions standards: information for customs brokers - 2020
- PFAS National Environment Management Plan 2.0 - 2020
- PFAS National Environment Management Plan 1.0 - 2020
- Guide to importing items regulated by the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 - 2020
- Guide to Australian certification under the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 - 2020
- Guide to exemptions under the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 - 2020
- Product emissions standards: information for retailers - 2020
Air quality
Books and reports
- Cost Recovery Implementation Statement: Regulating emissions from non-road engines and propulsion marine engines 2017-18 - 2018
- National Clean Air Agreement - 2015
Product emissions standards
Books and reports
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
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
- Environmental issues raised by the release and use of genetically modified plants and animals in Australia - 1999
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
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
- 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
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
- Hazardous waste tracking and data system - 2019
- Hazardous waste in Australia - 2019
- Australian hazardous waste data and reporting standard - 2019
- 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
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
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
- 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
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
- 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