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2017-18 highlights
Illegal dumping has significant impacts on human health and the environment and costs Victorians around $30 million a year in cleanup and lost landfills levy revenue.
In response, EPA’s Illegal Waste Dumping Strikeforce tackles illegal waste disposal across the state through a range of targeted initiatives.
In 2017–18, our Strikeforce Program implemented a project to target the skip bin sector – specifically, operators who advertise to take away household waste and then avoid their legitimate waste disposal costs by dumping waste on public and private land. This behaviour causes significant cleanup costs for local councils and private landowners, as well as potentially making everyday citizens complicit in pollution.
A key component of the skip bins project was our animated media campaign,Waste in the right place, which ran during April and May 2018 to raise public awareness of illegal dumping by skip bin operators and encourage customers to ask where their waste is going.
EPA also partnered with Victoria Police and Hume City Council to conduct an inspection blitz targeting rogue skip bin operators. This blitz was a culmination of more than a year’s work by EPA’s Intelligence and Analysis team which identified 110 small to medium suspected rogue skip bin sites. EPA also worked with Brimbank City Council, Hume City Council and City of Whittlesea during intelligence gathering.
In May 2018, the Strikeforce Program received $9.1 million in funding over four years in the 2018–19 State Budget. This funding will enable us to continue preventing and investigating illegal dumping through targeted investigations and compliance activities at high-risk sites.
In 2018–19, we also look forward to further building our intelligence gathering and analysis capability by:
Waste in the right place
EPA campaign aimed at raising awareness of waste removal and disposal requirements
$9.1 million
in government funding for the Illegal Dumping Strikeforce Program
$30 million
spent on cleaning up illegal dumping in Victoria every year
110 sites
used by suspected small-to-medium rogue skip bin operators were identified during a blitz with Victoria Police and Hume City Council
300 sites
inspected as part of the Build Aware program
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Holding polluters to account
Tackling local pollution and waste issues
Page last updated on 31 Dec 2018