The seminar will discuss the significant changes in the draft POEO Amendment (Waste) Regulation 2017:

• Removal of the defunct NSW Proximity Principle with moves to replace it by a Nationally based framework.
• Significant changes to construction and demolition waste including the Standards for Managing Construction Waste.
• Other changes affecting asbestos waste, all waste facilities and landfill operations
• The recently released draft Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy identifies major gaps.  Can they be filled

ASBG offers a morning seminar on the current issues affecting waste management in NSW. Following this is the afternoon
workshop on Waste Classification and Use of Resource Recovery Exemptions.

8.45 am SEMINAR: NSW’s Waste Reform Implementation:
This seminar section covers the most recent changes to NSW Waste laws including:

• Overview of the POEO Amendment (Waste) Regulation 2017:
  
  • The repeal of the proximity principle, changes to construction and demolition waste recycling, waste facilities and landfills
  • New penalties for landfill exhumation, dues from asbestos waste tipping
  • Standards for Managing Construction Waste in NSW
• Legal views on the regulatory changes
• Threats to recycling and resource recovery - impacts of China’s ban and recyclate contamination issues

1 pm WORKSHOP: Waste Classification & Use of Waste Exemptions:
Waste licensing under the POEO Act and legal dangers for generators and the waste industry

• Overview of the new and specific Resource Recovery Exemptions guidance documents for new RREs
• Assess the details and workings of Resource Recovery Exemptions and how to apply them
• Properly classify controlled waste according to the new Waste and other classification guidelines
• Overview the triggers for hazardous waste classification e.g. dangerous goods
• Detail uses of the TCLP, CT tests and putrescible test; when to use it and what to test for and how the test works
• Identify the new immobilisation documentation requirements and how and where to use immobilisation
• Examine the tracking system for controlled waste in NSW and interstate

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Waste: Levy, Proximity and Management Seminar - 24 November 2017

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