EPA Victoria has issued three fines to Cleanaway Pty Ltd totalling nearly $30,000 for transporting waste hand sanitizer without properly logging its movement.
A further $9,246 fine was issued to one of its transport contractors, DSS Investments (Aust) Pty Ltd, for the same offence.
Hand Sanitizer is a reportable priority waste (RPW) and its movement must be logged using the EPA's Waste Tracker system. EPA Waste Tracker captures every movement of RPW ensuring it is traceable from originator to its final destination at an appropriately licensed facility.
On four occasions in April this year, hand sanitizer was moved from a site in Braeside to Cleanaway's Dandenong South then to the Cleanaway Melbourne Regional Landfill (MRL) in Ravenhall, without being properly recorded in Waste Tracker.
"The movement of RPW is recorded to ensure it is appropriately treated or disposed of. Waste Tracker must be used, and it must be properly completed. Cleanaway and DSS did not do that so EPA has fined them," EPA South Metropolitan Melbourne Region Manager Viranga Abeywickrema said.
"We have given clear instruction to the waste industry about the use of Waste Tracker. The improper use of the system is not acceptable and EPA has warned that it will take enforcement action."
