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In 2004 the EPA recognised there was a need for a strategy to deal with all aspects of hazardous waste collection, handling, storage, treatment and disposal.
In South Australia, the community has realised that there is a need to look beyond traditional financial indicators to measure the wellbeing of society and to break down the historic segregation of work, environment and community.
This is in part due to the health concerns of staff who use chemicals in the workplace, chemical emissions from industrial plants and the associated health complaints and problems of workers and nearby residents, and finally a desire by the community to use natural resources sustainably to ensure their availability to future generations.
The trend internationally has centred on sustainable development and, in particular, the adoption by industry of cleaner production principles. Thinking has changed from ‘end-of-pipe solutions’ to waste avoidance.
The Hazardous Waste Strategy should be seen as an instrument to stimulate industry to change the way that they view hazardous waste and in particular, its generation.
Industry should employ a triple bottom line approach to hazardous waste management, catering for the economic, social and environmental aspects of waste generation, management and disposal. Industry should also strive to be innovative and view the elimination of hazardous wastes as good business sense.
This strategy has been designed to work with the current waste management environment in South Australia.
It provides a statewide direction for the management of hazardous waste that will take industry to 2010, after which a review of the strategy should be undertaken as new technologies and systems become available.
Medical waste also has specific licensing and management requirements.
Legislation relating to waste management.
Information on household hazardous waste.
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