State of Environment

Indicator 54 - Amount of waste incinerated at Australian Antarctic Stations

Index: Description | Data | Custodian evaluation | Related resources | Parameters

Description

Responsible organisation

Australian Antarctic Division ( Australia )

Custodians

No custodians.

Theme area

Human Settlements

Indicator type

Pressure Response

Criteria the indicator satisfies

The following 15 out of 15 criteria

1. Serve as a robust indicator of environmental change
2. Reflect a fundamental or highly-valued aspect of the environment or an important environmental issue
3. Be either national in scope or applicable to regional environmental issues of national significance
4. Provide an early warning of potential problems
5. Be capable of being monitored to provide statistically verifiable and reproducible data that shows trends over time and, preferably, apply to a broad range of environmental regions
6. Be scientifically credible
7. Be easy to understand
8. Be monitored with relative ease
9. Be cost-effective
10. Have relevance to policy and management needs
11. Contribute to monitoring of progress towards implementing commitments in nationally important environmental policies
12. Where possible and appropriate, facilitate community involvement
13. Contribute to the fulfillment of reporting obligations under international agreements
14. Where possible and appropriate, use existing commercial and managerial indicators
15. Where possible and appropriate, be consistent and comparable with other countries� and state and territory indicators

Date input

Monthly measurements

Monitoring location

Geographic coverage

Data

Temporal range of the available data, as described by the metadata record, is from 01-Jan-1999 .

Timespan
January-1999 to April-2024
Number of data points
10281

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Data quality, interpretation and analysis of indicator data

Data usage constraints

' This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_incinerated_waste when using these data. '

Data access constraints

' These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL. '

Custodian evaluation

23 May 2002

The figures reflect the seasonal production of waste, with figures as low as 500 kg per month in winter when expeditioner numbers are low, to maximum figures of 1900 kg in summer when numbers are highest. Food scraps and wood products were usually the greatest contributor to this type of waste. Some exceptional events are recorded, such as burning 850 kg of spoiled potatoes at Macquarie Island in January 2001.

12 Nov 2002

Pressure scale - 2
1 - undetectable external pressure on the environment
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - extreme external pressure on the environment, degradation accelerating
Response scale - 2
1 - Management resourcing is nil
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - Management resourcing to ensure total remediation in short timeframe
State of Knowledge scale - 4 - Fair
1 - Poor
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - Excellent

22 Apr 2003

The figures reflect the seasonal production of waste, with low figures per month in winter when expeditioner numbers are low, to maximum figures of in summer when numbers are highest and items need to be be disposed of prior to resupply. Food scraps and wood products were usually the greatest contributor to this type of waste. Some exceptional events are recorded, such as burning 550 kg of meat at Macquarie Island in January 2003

Pressure scale - 2
1 - undetectable external pressure on the environment
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - extreme external pressure on the environment, degradation accelerating
Response scale - 2
1 - Management resourcing is nil
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - Management resourcing to ensure total remediation in short timeframe
State of Knowledge scale - 4 - Fair
1 - Poor
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - Excellent

3 Jul 2007

Pressure scale - 6
1 - undetectable external pressure on the environment
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - extreme external pressure on the environment, degradation accelerating
Response scale - 6
1 - Management resourcing is nil
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - Management resourcing to ensure total remediation in short timeframe
State of Knowledge scale - 5
1 - Poor
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 - Excellent

For definitions of the Scale categories, consult the Explanation of the Status Categories

Related resources

SOE Indicator 47 - Number and nature of incidents resulting in environmental impact
SOE Indicator 48 - Station and ship person days
SOE Indicator 49 - Medical consultations per person year
SOE Indicator 53 - Waste returned to Australia
SOE Indicator 57 - Monthly incinerator fuel usage of Australian Antarctic Stations
SOE Indicator 69 - Resources committed to environmental issues

Parameters

The properties link can be used to view details of the parameters measured for this indicator.

Parameter Name Unit of measure Properties
Cardboard kilograms Properties
Food - Spoiled Fruit and Vegetables kilograms Properties
Human Waste from the Field kilograms Properties
Hydroponics Waste kilograms Properties
Kitchen Scraps kilograms Properties
Medical Waste kilograms Properties
Miscellaneous Waste kilograms Properties
Paper Products Kilograms Properties
Science Waste kilograms Properties
Textiles waste kilograms Properties
Total incinerated waste Kilograms Properties
Wood and Wood Products kilograms Properties

The following parameters and/or sensor notes are from the metadata record.

Parameters

EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS

Sensors

IASI

Related URLs

http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_incinerated_waste
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1272
Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre