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CSR Building Products Limited                                                                                           Page 30
West Ridge Quarry
Site Based Management Plan



3.5          Waste

3.5.1        Purpose
      Unmanaged wastes can detract from the amenity of the Site and locality and can increase operational costs.
      The EP Act, EP Regulations, WRR Act and Environmental Protection (Waste Management) Regulation 2000 provide
      the statutory basis for waste management for protection of environmental values. The objective of the WRR Act are:
                    (a) to promote waste avoidance and reduction, and resource recovery and efficiency actions;
                     (b) to reduce the consumption of natural resources and minimise the disposal of waste by
                         encouraging waste avoidance and the recovery, re-use and recycling of waste;
                     (c) to minimise the overall impact of waste generation and disposal;
                     (d) to ensure a shared responsibility between government, business and industry and the
                         community in waste management and resource recovery; and
                     (e) to support and implement national frameworks, objectives and priorities for waste
                         management and resource recovery.

      The WRR Act nominates a waste management hierarchy in a preferred order of adoption. The hierarchy is as follows:
                   (a) AVOID unnecessary resource consumption;
                   (b) REDUCE waste generation and disposal;
                   (c) RE-USE waste resources without further manufacturing;
                   (d) RECYCLE waste resources to make the same or different products;
                   (e) RECOVER waste resources, including the recovery of energy;
                   (f) TREAT waste before disposal, including reducing the hazardous nature of waste; and
                   (g) DISPOSE of waste only if there is no viable alternative.
      The principal wastes from the extractive industry may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
      - food scraps, lunch packaging and consumables (e.g. paper and equipment parts);
      - ‘Regulated Wastes’ such as batteries, oil filters, waste oil/hydrocarbons and containers, oil/water emulsions and
          tyres;
      - domestic wastewaters;
      - steel/used equipment; and
      - plant debris from clearing.

3.5.2        Operational Policy
      To prevent or minimise the generation of wastes as far as practicable, and to contain, control and dispose of waste in
      accordance with appropriate waste management practices.

3.5.3        Performance Targets
      Implement the WRR Act waste management hierarchy to minimise disposal to landfill.
      Maintain a record of any disposal of trackable wastes in accordance with the EP (Waste Management) Regulation.
      No unlawful disposal of wastes on or off-site.

3.5.4        Implementation Strategy/Mitigation Measures
      Site wastes will be managed in the following manner:
      - establishing waste stations around the Site, including all bin types required for appropriate segregation of wastes
           generated during the activity;
      - storing wastes in a neat and orderly manner and clearly signed as waste materials, where wastes have to be
           temporarily stored on-site;
      - empting waste skips prior to reaching the point of overflowing;
      - covering waste skips and bin types that have no lids to prevent any wind blown litter;


December 2012 / file ref. 1271_610_001                                                                       GROUNDWORK p l u s