About e-waste

E-waste is any device that has a plug, battery or power cord that is no longer working or wanted. There are policies, standards, guidelines and other resources for the safe management, transport...

Controlling e-waste hazards and risks

Assessing and controlling risk helps ensure that your storage, transport and/or reprocessing of e-waste prevents harm to human health and the environment...

Planning

Find environmental resources for the planning industry...

Bio-trickling filters and bioscrubbers

Controls such as bio-trickling filters and bioscrubbers can help your business to eliminate or reduce the risks of harm from odour...

Metal sintered filters

Controls such as metal sintered filters can help your business to eliminate or reduce the risks of harm from odour...

Chemicals including petroleum

Authorities who use the Environment Reference Standard

Find out when EPA, local councils and other decision makers use the Environment Reference Standard...

Victoria’s new waste framework

This webinar discusses how Victoria’s environmental laws are changing and the new requirements to managing industrial waste...

Whittlesea's OPLE resolves dust from development sites

During the warmer months of 2019-2020, there was noticeable dust from large-scale land development sites in the Whittlesea area. Whittlesea's OPLE and council officers worked to reduce the dust...

Community-led action for smoke: Yarra Ranges pilot

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) is pleased to offer residents of the Yarra Ranges Shire the opportunity to engage in a 12-month, pilot community-led project focused on reducing smoke...