Publications
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2004
ISBN 0642549303
The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is the only nationwide, publicly accessible inventory of estimated pollutant emissions in Australia.
The NPI provides a broad base of information on pollutant emissions for the community, policy makers and industry. The NPI also aims to promote cleaner production measures, which can result in reduced emissions and a cleaner environment.
This summary report gives an overview of the fifth NPI reporting year (2002-03). Facility data for 2002-03 were published on the Internet (www.npi.gov.au) on 30 January 2004.
This report uses the data available as at 30 January 2004. As some minor changes to the data were made in May 2004, visit the website for the latest information.
It is important to realise that the NPI data are estimated emissions and data accuracy varies according to the estimation technique used.
Some information in this report looks at the proportion of pollutant emissions from various emission sources. In effect this approach is comparing the average contribution of sources to pollutant emissions. A similar approach is used on the location reports on the NPI website. More details about this approach are on the website.
This report is also available as a PDF file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view the PDF file.
If you cannot access the report, please contact us to organise a suitable alternative format.