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Praises a panel, set up by the Australian government, for its recommendations on what the country should do with its toxic waste. Panel rejected the incinerator plan favored by the government; Panel would like to see a suite of smaller technologies that between them could eliminate most of the waste; How the panel went about gathering its information.

Focuses on a report by the Independent Panel on Intractable Wastes set up by the Australian government that considered what to do with Australia's toxic waste. Recommends that Australia should develop a range of technologies that could be tailored to particular properties and characteristics of the waste; Proposal to ban all exports of toxic wastes from Australia while these technologies are being developed is controversial; Under what conditions wastes could be exported.

Reports that the public comment period has ended on an Australian draft standard and code of practice for the storage and handling of dangerous goods. National Occupational Health and Safety Commission's offer of a series of free public seminars designed to show the effects of the draft standard and code; Debate over the move from prescriptive to performance-based legislation.