QLD Submissions

2023

• Draft review report Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy (19 May 2023)
• Waste reduction and recycling amendment bill 2023 (14 March 2023)
• Expanding the scope of eligible containers in Queensland (20 February 2023)
• Review of the landfill guideline - preliminary consultation (17 February 2023)

2022

• Waste levy efficacy and Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy review (15 June 2022)
• Independent EPA consultation (4 February 2022) 
• Independent EPA survey responses (21 July 2022)
• Waste levy efficacy and Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy review (15 June 2022)
• Independent EPA consultation (4 February 2022)
• Single use plastics survey (28 January 2022)

2021

• Draft Queensland Organics Strategy (1 November 2021)
• Draft Regulatory Strategy 2021-2026 (28 October 2021)
• Draft State Infrastructure Strategy (21 October 2021)
• Draft End of Waste Code - Glass Fines (11 October 2021)
• Energy from Waste guideline (11 June 2021)
• Submission for proposed end of waste code - incinerator bottom ash (15 February 2021)
• Waste Reduction and Recycling (Plastic Items) Amendment Bill 2020 (12 January 2021) 

2020

• Draft End of Waste Code - Recycled Aggregates (21 September 2020)
• Queensland waste and resource recovery election priorities (18 September 2020)
• Waste Reduction and Recycling (Plastics Items) Amendment Bill 2020 (29 July 2020)
• Single-use Plastic Items Consultation RIS (15 April 2020)
• Local government waste management reforms: consultation regulatory impact statement (10 February 2020)

2019

• Energy from Waste policy (26 August 2019)
• Draft Queensland Resource Recovery Industries 10-year Roadmap and Action Plan (14 June 2019)
• Ensuring levy readiness in Queensland (14 June 2019) 
• Draft waste management and resource recovery strategy (5 April 2019)

2018

• WMAA letter to QLD Environment Minister ahead of Meeting of Environment Ministers (MEM) (26 November 2018)
• WMAA response to QLD Waste Levy Taskforce re the Waste Reduction and Recycling (Waste Levy)Amendment Regulation 2018 (15 October 2018)
• WMAA response to QLD Innovation Committee re Waste Reduction and Recycling (Waste Levy) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 (19 September 2018)
• WMAA response to new end of waste codes (28 February 2018)
• WMAA response to Noosa Shire Council Local Law No.7 Amendment (2 February 2018)

2017

• WMAA response to Sunshine Coast Council Local Laws Amendment (22 December 2017)
• Environment Protection (Public Register) Regulation Submission (7 November 2017)
• Transport of Waste to Queensland (26 September 2017)
• QLD RIS Review (5 September 2017)
• Container Refund Scheme (CRS) Implementation (22 May 2017)
• Submission on End of Waste (EoW) Codes Framework (10 April 2017)
• Submission on Implementing a lightweight plastic shopping bag ban in Queensland Discussion Paper (1 March 2017)

2016

• Comment on EHP - Proposed Provisions to support new end of waste framework (10 October 2016)

2015

• Submission on the Review of the Regulation of Waste Related Activities - Environmental Protection Act 1994 - Proposed ERA Framework (25 September 2015)
• Submission on the Regulated Waste Framework - Discussion Paper (25 September 2015)

2014

• Submission on the Draft Queensland Waste Avoidance and Resource Productivity Strategy (2014 – 2024)