The Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, on track to be approved in Australia, has been designed to “to ban the export of waste glass, plastics, tires and paper.” The bill’s authors seek to establish a system to classify some materials as exportable, while trade in others will be banned. The bill’s explanatory memorandum document says it will “replace the framework in the Product Stewardship Act 2011” regarding “the shared responsibility for reducing the environmental, health and safety footprint of manufactured goods and materials across the life cycle of a product stream (including material streams).”
The memorandum adds, “The intention of regulating the export of waste material is to stop the export of untreated and unprocessed waste [that] is likely to have a negative impact on the environment or human health in the receiving country.” As outlined, the law seems likely to introduce layers of regulation to recyclers, secondary commodities traders, and the freight companies that serve them. “Under the Bill, the export of ‘regulated waste material’ will be prohibited unless the prescribed export conditions set out in the rules are met,” states the explanatory memorandum. That memo’s authors say “regulated waste materials” will be regulated via “rules [that] will set out the requirements for the export of certain waste material from Australia. For example, the rules may require that: a person must hold an export license; and for each consignment of regulated waste material, an export declaration has been given.”
The memo, “The definition of waste material is intended to be sufficiently broad to capture all types of waste. However, the bill will only regulate those kinds of waste materials that are prescribed for the purpose of clause 17 and which are referred to in the bill as regulated waste materials.”
Source: Recycling Today
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