• About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • List Stock
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Newsletter
SUBSCRIBE
MARKETPLACE
  • Latest News
  • Features
    • Cover Story
    • Up Front
    • Waste Management In Action
    • Council in Focus
    • Rules and Regulations
    • International
    • Product Spotlight
    • Last Word
    • Profile
    • Events
    • Sustainability in Business
  • Events
  • White Paper
  • Magazine
  • Awards
    • WIRA
    • WII
    • Foundation Awards
No Results
View All Results
  • Latest News
  • Features
    • Cover Story
    • Up Front
    • Waste Management In Action
    • Council in Focus
    • Rules and Regulations
    • International
    • Product Spotlight
    • Last Word
    • Profile
    • Events
    • Sustainability in Business
  • Events
  • White Paper
  • Magazine
  • Awards
    • WIRA
    • WII
    • Foundation Awards
No Results
View All Results
Home News

NWRIC State Affiliate Waste Update

by Waste Management Review
July 7, 2021
in News
Reading Time: 8 mins read
A A
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

National Waste and Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC) State Affiliates provide a detailed overview of industry and policy changes across the country.

NWRIC is the national industry body for commercial waste and recycling operators Australia wide.

It brings together national businesses and affiliated state associations to develop and promote policies and actions to advance waste management and resource recovery in Australia – ensuring a fair, safe and sustainable industry that serves all Australians.

NWRIC state affiliates include the Waste Recycling Industry Queensland (WRIQ), the Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of NSW & ACT (WCRA), the Victorian Waste Management Association (VWMA), the Waste Recycling Industry of South Australia (WRISA), the Waste Recycling Industry of Western Australia (WRIWA) and the Waste Recycling Industry Northern Territory (WRINT). 

 

WCRA – ACT & New South Wales

WCRA Annual Industry Update & Dinner – Industrial and Liquid Waste Challenges

On 10 June 2021, at Kirribilli WCRA held its annual Industry Update & Dinner. With over 150 guests attending across both events, there was a range of fabulous special guests and speakers.

Glenn Horne, Halgan Liquid Waste and Paul Vujic, from Cleanaway spoke about how the Industrial & Liquid Waste sector has evolved and the current issues and challenges facing the sector.

The past 30 years have seen dramatic changes in Solid Waste operations resulting in improved recycling and reuse of material. Unfortunately within the same period there have not been many significant improvements within the liquid industry.

Some smaller players have entered the industry with similar treatment systems, and while effective, nothing new has developed.

In the 1980’s the NSW State Government built a “World’s Best Practice” treatment facility at Homebush. This facility was able to accept and treat all types of liquid waste and was the major treatment facility, catering for liquid wastes generated across Australia. The Homebush facility remains the major treatment site, and is yet to be challenged for capability, although it is reaching its use by date.

To a waste generator, liquid waste is seen as a secondary waste stream when accompanying the general waste activity.  When you compare the liquid waste volumes to general waste annually, it is easy to see why greater solid waste volumes attract resources and capital.

International trends – Environmental regulations aided by larger volumes overseas have seen changes to liquid waste processing plants that have improved the ability to extract and reuse both hydrocarbon and organic materials from liquid waste streams (eg waste to energy).

New technology to achieve better liquid recovery does require higher capital cost. The capital cost compared to the available volumes are possibly the main deterrent to progress ……..but as social expectations and environmental regulations tighten, there will need to be change.

If we are to achieve improved environmental and commercial sustainability, the liquid waste sector will require an investment in improved technology.

The liquid waste industry requires more certainty around the regulatory framework providing better foundations for the sector. A good example is the Used Lube Oil (ULO) and PSO, where there have been excellent environmental and commercial outcomes. On the other hand, an example of where the regulatory framework does not support commercial investment is e waste.

The industry needs to focus on improving risk management across all environmental, health & safety areas.

The smaller market volumes combined with large distances to processing sites are a challenge for waste transporters and specialised liquid treatment plants.

The industry is held back by red tape and time where it can take upwards of 5 to obtain the approvals and build new plants.

In a changing market, this poses challenges across the liquid waste sector.

 

WRIWA – Western Australia

WRIWA meets with new Environment Minister Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson

The return to power of the McGowan Labor government in WA has ensured the continuation of the Waste Avoidance & Resource Recovery Strategy Action Plan 2030 which is one of the most ambitious plans in Australia to reduce waste to landfill.

WRIWA President Mike Harper met with the new Minister for the Environment, the Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA on 14 June 2021 (Ms Sanderson also holds the portfolios of Climate Action and Commerce).

Mike Harper commented: “I was very pleased with the Minister’s commitment to the Waste Strategy 2030 which over the last four years has started to produce major improvements in WA’s recycling rates. It was a very productive meeting, and I came away confident that we are well on track to achieving the first objective of the Strategy: which is increasing material recovery to 70% by 2025.

“I raised the two pressing issues of levy avoidance and the need for consistent compliance action. Fortunately, the Minister was very willing to engage on these issues and indicated that she wants speedy resolutions. We have proposed a fast-track solution for levy avoidance and the Minister has committed to investigating this possibility. Levy avoidance is costing the State at least $2 million per week. At the meeting I reaffirmed WRIWA’s commitment to working collaboratively with the government to resolve this issue.

“I have invited Minister Sanderson to view the Roads to Reuse Crushed Recycled Concrete plant, the Commingled C&D Recycling Plant and the Sims Metal Recycling Plant based in Kwinana. We have also invited her to meet our members from across the industry and to hear first-hand our issues with both compliance and levy avoidance and continue the discussion on possible solutions.

Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Roundtable; Roads to Reuse (RTR)

At a forum jointly chaired by Acting Director General Transport WA, Peter Woronzow, and the Chair of the WA Waste Authority, Reg Howard-Smith, industry, and State government representatives met on 12 May 2021 to discuss the outcomes of the Roads to Reuse Pilot Project.

The Pilot Project report strongly endorsed the use of crushed recycled concrete in State infrastructure projects.  As a result, Main Roads WA (MRWA) has committed to using 200,000 tonnes of qualifying product in 2021, then doubling this quantity in 2022.

To date, five contractors across WA have completed the Material Acceptance and Sampling Plan (MASP) process which qualifies them to supply to MRWA. The MASP is a rigorous quality assurance process designed to ensure the recycled product meets stringent environmental and health criteria. Developed over a two-year period by MRWA, the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) and WA Health, these criteria allowed recycled product to be trialled in late 2019.

Officers from WA Health commended the strong environmental and health measures which form part of the product specification, commenting that these measures are designed to give the WA public strong protection. WA Health supports the application of these standards to all C&D processing.

Peter Woronzow also commended the project commenting that: “It was a once in a generation opportunity for MRWA to engage in recycling, that the adoption of RTR.

WRINT – Northern Territory

WRINT and councils work to address legacy waste

Initiated and led by local members, WRINT in collaboration with the Alice Springs Town Council, Central Desert Regional Council, MacDonnell Regional Council, LGANT, the NT EPA, and Charles Darwin University have received a grant from the Department of Water, Agriculture and Environment (DAWE) to undertake a project that will provide an insight to the potential employment and other opportunities that may arise from resolving the challenges of managing legacy waste in remote and regional areas of Australia and existing waste and recycling practices across the region.

The Councils have responsibility for a combined area of more than 550,057 square kms, incorporating 68 separate formal waste facilities, as well as 25 Community and 43 individual Homeland areas. In terms of its regional and remote focus the project scope will undertake a review of an area stretching from the Western Australia border with the NT across to the Queensland / NT Border through Central Australia, including Alice Springs with its community of 28,000.

The outcomes of this work will provide core information and assessment that will inform possible opportunities for recovery and recycling of the identified legacy waste. The project is part of the response to the National Waste Policy Action Plan action 3.17: Increase access to resource recovery and waste management infrastructure for regional, remote, and indigenous communities in every state and territory to the federal Department of Water, Agriculture and Environment.

 

WRIQ – Queensland

National survey on benefits and effectiveness of waste and recycling grants 

The Waste Recycling Industry Association of Queensland (WRIQ) in partnership with NWRIC and state affiliates have begun a National Review of Grants funded by waste and landfill levies. 

This project continues work initiated by the National Waste Recycling Industry Council’s White Paper, Review of Waste Levies in Australia, which identified that only about 25% of levies are returned to the sector (including funding of broader environmental initiatives).

It includes both a review of state government budget papers and announcements on levies collected and grant expenditure as well as a survey of stakeholders in the waste and recycling sector, their experiences with government grants, the timeliness of grants, if they are fit for purpose and what could be done to improve the process.

From this research we intend to provide a suite of recommendations to State and Federal Governments about how grants have helped our sector, how they could be improved and what other mechanisms could support the sector in increasing resource recovery and reducing waste to landfill.

WRIQ (on behalf of NWRIC and state affiliates) invites anyone from across Australia who has expressed interest in state government grant programs for waste and recycling (and related areas) to email memberservices@wriq.com.au to register your interest and receive your copy of the survey link and fact sheet about this project.

You do not need to be a member of WRIQ or our state affiliates to participate in this study.

 

For more information about the survey contact Mark Smith Mark.Smith@wriq.com.au

Tags: composte-wasteEPAlandfillNSWNWRICpackagingQueenslandSouth AustraliasustainabilityVictoriaWAWastewaste to energy
Premium Ad
18

$95,000

2010 FINLAY I130RS

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Impactor
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Dubbo, NSW

02 8315 0022
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
21

$499,000

2017 METSO LOKOTRACK® LT1213S MOBILE CRUSHER AND SCREEN

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Impactor
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Cranbourne North, VIC

0485 931 103
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
4

$891,000

MCCLOSKEY J50V2

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Jaw Crusher
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Oldbury, WA

08 6500 0902
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
4
Private Advertiser

$33,000

CUSTOM CUSTOM

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Screener
  • » Class: Screenboxes
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Peak Crossing, QLD

**** *** 571
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
2

$335,000

2020 MCCLOSKEY S190

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Screener
  • » Class: Double Deck
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Wacol, QLD

07 3073 8201
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
2

$8,400

2024 DYNAMIC OVERBAND MAGNET - NEW

  • » Listing Type: New
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Magnets
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Port Adelaide, SA

08 7099 2506
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
3

$280,000

2020 MCCLOSKEY S130

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Screener
  • » Class: Double Deck
  • » Application: Mobile
  • » Capacity - tonnes/h: up to 500tph
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Wacol, QLD

07 3073 8201
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
6
Private Advertiser

$19,000

FINLAY 312FINL

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Screener
  • » Class: Vibrating Screens
  • » Application: Stationary
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Steiglitz, QLD

**** *** 707
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
9
Private Advertiser

$200,000

2021 BARFORD T516 TRACKED TROMMEL

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Screener
  • » Class: Trommel Screens
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Nymagee, NSW

**** *** 902
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
2

$682,000

2021 POWERSCREEN POWERSCREEN MAXTRAK 1000 CONE CRUSHER

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Cone
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Narangba, QLD

07 3073 8183
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
20

$616,000

2023 TEREX FINLAY J960A JAW CRUSHER

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Jaw Crusher
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Burpengary, QLD

Location marker The shape of a location marker

Delivery ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS & VIC

07 3106 7395
MORE DETAILS
Premium Ad
1
Private Advertiser

$80,000

2013 KIRPY KIRPY ROCK CRUSHER

  • » Listing Type: Used
  • » Category: Crusher
  • » Class: Crushing Mobile
  • » Application: Mobile
Location marker The shape of a location marker

Port Pirie South, SA

**** *** 071
MORE DETAILS

Related Posts

University of Technology Sydney tyre research

Recycled tyre tech cuts waste and boosts railway resilience

by Jennifer Pittorino
July 18, 2025

New research has shown that a world-first system of rubber shock absorbers made from recycled tyres can significantly protect railway tracks...

End Food Waste Australia director

End Food Waste Australia appoints strategic policy director

by Jennifer Pittorino
July 18, 2025

Wendy Hughes has been appointed to the newly created role of Director of Policy, Communications and Strategic Engagement for End...

Caterpillar landfill

Caterpillar’s boost for landfill profitability

by Jennifer Pittorino
July 18, 2025

Daily challenges can come in droves on landfill sites. However, Caterpillar® has the technology to make operations as easy as...

Join our newsletter

View our privacy policy, collection notice and terms and conditions to understand how we use your personal information.
Waste Management Review is the specialist magazine for the waste, recycling and resource recovery sectors in Australia.

Subscribe to our newsletter

View our privacy policy, collection notice and terms and conditions to understand how we use your personal information.

About Waste Management Review

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • List Your Equipment Today
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Collection Notice

Popular Topics

  • News
  • Features
  • Waste Management In Action
  • Product Spotlight
  • Profiles
  • Up Front
  • Last Word
  • Events

Our TraderAds Network

  • Arbor Age
  • Australian Car Mechanic
  • Australian Mining
  • Australian Resources & Investment
  • Big Rigs
  • Bulk Handling Review
  • Bus News
  • Cranes & Lifting
  • Earthmoving Equipment Magazine
  • EcoGeneration
  • Energy Today
  • Food & Beverage
  • Fully Loaded
  • Global Trailer
  • Inside Construction
  • Inside Waste
  • Inside Water
  • Landscape Contractor Magazine
  • Manufacturers' Monthly
  • MHD Supply Chain
  • National Collision Repairer
  • OwnerDriver
  • Power Torque
  • Prime Mover Magazine
  • Quarry
  • Roads Online
  • Rail Express
  • Safe To Work
  • The Australian Pipeliner
  • Trade Earthmovers
  • Trade Farm Machinery
  • Trade Plant Equipment
  • Trade Trucks
  • Trade Unique Cars
  • Tradie Magazine
  • Trailer Magazine
  • Trenchless Australasia
  • Waste Management Review

© 2025 All Rights Reserved. All content published on this site is the property of Prime Creative Media. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited

No Results
View All Results
NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE
MARKETPLACE
  • Home
  • Latest News
  • Features
    • Cover Story
    • Up Front
    • Waste Management In Action
    • Council in Focus
    • Rules and Regulations
    • International
    • Product Spotlight
    • Last Word
    • Profile
    • Events
    • Sustainability in Business
  • Events
  • White Paper
  • Magazine
    • Subscribe
  • Awards
    • WIRA
    • WII
    • Foundation Awards
  • Marketplace
  • List Your Equipment Today
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact

© 2025 All Rights Reserved. All content published on this site is the property of Prime Creative Media. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited