Publications
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2005
ISBN 0642551308
The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is the only nationwide, publicly accessible inventory of pollutant emissions in Australia.
The NPI provides a broad base of information on pollutant emissions for the community, government and industry. The NPI programme is run cooperatively by the Australian, state and territory governments to help create a cleaner and healthier environment.
This summary report gives an overview of the sixth NPI reporting year (2003-04). Facility data for 2003-04 was published on the internet (www.npi.gov.au) on 31 January 2005.
This report uses the data available as at 31 January 2005. As some minor changes to the data will be made after this time, information in this report may not be the same as data on the web site.
It is important to realise that the NPI data are often calculated rather than measured. Data accuracy varies according to the determination 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 web site. More details about this approach are on the web site.
Contact:
www.npi.gov.au
Email: npi@deh.gov.au
Phone: 1800 657 945
More contact details are inside the back cover
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