Environment Protection and Heritage Council and the Department
of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2010 - National
Waste Report 2010 - the full report is available on the SCEW
website In November 2008, Australia? environment ministers
agreed to prepare the first comprehensive national report on
resource recovery and waste management. Just prior to this, the
Senate report Management of Australia? waste streams had
concluded that Australia lacks fundamental information on most
aspects of waste generation and management, including physical,
financial, economic and social aspects, and needs adequate
analytical tools to process such information. On 5 November
2009, Australia? environment ministers, through the Environment
Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC), released the National
Waste Policy: Less waste, more resources. The policy sets out a
comprehensive agenda for national co-ordinated action on waste
across six areas, and marks a fundamental shift in the approach
to waste management and resource r