Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

The issue of waste PPE in Melbourne over the last four weeks has been quite a considerable one. If you consider that an aged-care facility with a COVID outbreak produces something in the order of six cubic metres of PPE waste per day, that creates quite a significant problem. One of the really good things that's occurred through the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre has been management of the waste. During that period of time we had a breakdown of one of the incinerators that was disposing of the waste of PPE in Victoria. We also had some regulatory problems in having enough heavy vehicles that were licensed to move the PPE away. But those things have been all been worked through, through the auspices of the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre. It may very well have been that a nurse saw large piles of waste PPE outside a facility. The COVID-19 outbreak— (Time expired)