WA Submissions

2024

2023

2022

• Environmental Regulations Reform (13 December 2022)
• Western Australia’s Plan for Plastics (18 November 2022)

2021

• Cost recovery part IV environmental protection (22 October 2021)

2020

• Waste not, want not: Valuing waste as a resource (18 December 2020)
• Review of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007 (25 November 2020)

• Better Practice Composting draft guideline (25 November 2020)
• A Stronger Tomorrow: State Infrastructure Strategy Discussion Paper (21 August 2020)
• Closing the loop: Waste reforms for a circular economy (15 July 2020)
• Review of the waste levy (15 July 2020)
• Proposed amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (28 January 2020) 

2019

• Compliance and Enforcement Strategy (20 September 2019)
• Waste Data Strategy (6 September 2019)
• Waste not, want not: valuing waste as a resource (4 September 2019)
• Mandatory use of weighbridges to calculate leviable waste (24 July 2019)
• Let's not draw the short straw: reduce single-use plastics (12 July 2019)
• WA approved methods for reporting (27 May 2019)
• Joint letter to ALP Ministers re CDS Coordinator (24 April 2019)
• Draft CDS Scheme Coordinator Regulations (8 April 2019)

2018

• WMAA submission on draft customer service standards for collection network (6 December 2018)
• WMAA letter to WA Environment Minister ahead of Meeting of Environment Ministers (MEM) (26 November 2018)
• WMAA Submission on Waste Strategy 2030 (6 November 2018)
• WMAA Submission on Inquiry into the Review of Business Licences in Western Australia (WA) (4 April 2018)
• WMAA comments on Odour guideline for prescribed premises – Part V Division 3 Environmental Protection Act 1986 (24 March 2018)
• WMAA Submission on Implementing a light weight single-use plastic bag ban in Western Australia (9 March 2018)
• WMAA Submission on Consultation Paper Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy (1 March 2018)
• WMAA comments on Amendments proposed following the decision on Eclipse Resources Pty Ltd v The State of WA [No.4] (2016) WASC 62 (5 February 2018)

2017

• Submission on the Waste Reform Project (13 November 2017)
• Submission on the Container Deposit Scheme Discussion Paper (23 October 2017)
• Waste Strategy - 2014/15 Performance Assessment (20 February 2017)

2016

• Submission on Consultation paper: Proposed Amendments to the WARR Regulations 2008 to Require Record-keeping and Annual Reporting of Waste and Recycling Data (26 August 2016)
• Submission on Draft Environmental Standard: composting and Guideline on Environmental Noise for Prescribed Premises (15 June 2015)
• Submission on Regulatory Assessment Framework, Environmental Risk Assessment Framework and Regulatory Controls (14March 2016)
• Submission on Environmental Siting (5 February 2016)

2015

• WMAA WA Branch letter to DER regarding Material Guidelines: Construction Products (16 December 2015)
• Submission on Guidance Statement: Separation Distances and Licence Documentation (October 2015)
• Submission on Environmental Standard: Composting (October 2015)
• Submission on Environmental Standard Guidance Statement (31 August 2015)
• Submission on Manufactured fill (28 July 2015)
• Submission on Guideline: Submitting an application for the use of waste-derived materials (case by case determination) (27 May 2015)
• Submission on Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007 – Review (23 February 2015)

2014

• Submission on the Department of Environment Regulation Guidance Statement: Regulating the Use of Waste Derived Materials (29 August 2014)