The state government is working to unlock future potential and drive innovation in the waste management sector with targeted and effective changes to our regulatory and policy environment.
Engagement with the industry to date has identified the next suite of potential reforms to further promote industry certainty and achieve robust regulation that better supports a more level playing field as well as a healthy environment.
Listening to stakeholders, the state government has already taken initial actions towards improving certainty, innovation and growth in the sector and the broader green economy, including introduction of the Environment Protection (Waste Reform) Amendment Bill 2017 into Parliament.
As the next legislative step, the EPA has developed a proposed mass balance reporting system. Such reporting is a necessary tool for effectively identifying and responding to key issues and its establishment is supported as a high priority within the industry.
The proposed system would require waste facilities, including transfer stations, resource recovery facilities and waste disposal depots, which receive 5,000 tonnes or more of waste per annum to report on the monthly tonnages of materials that the site receives, stockpiles, uses onsite or transfers from the site for sale or disposal.
The proposal also sets out associated record-keeping, weighbridge, video monitoring and site survey requirements.
Building on previous engagement, the EPA is seeking views on the proposed system as set out in the Mass Balance Reporting Explanatory Paper.
Consultation closes on Tuesday 31 October 2017.