Environmentally relevant activities
Queensland numbers its regulated activities. An authority names the ones it covers, and carrying one out without an authority is an offence under section 426 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994.
This axis covers a third of the register. 5,751 of the 15,141 authorities carry at least one ERA code. The other 9,390 are resource activities — exploration and mining permits — which the register classifies by industry instead.
| Code | Activity | Authorities | In effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERA 57 | Regulated Waste Transport | 2,041 | 1,180 |
| ERA 16 | Extraction and Screening | 1,294 | 784 |
| ERA 63 | Sewage Treatment | 821 | 596 |
| ERA 62 | Resource recovery and transfer facility operation | 710 | 519 |
| ERA 54 | Mechanical waste reprocessing | 350 | 273 |
| ERA 8 | Chemical Storage | 187 | 147 |
| ERA 60 | Waste disposal | 170 | 144 |
| ERA 7 | Chemical manufacturing | 166 | 120 |
| ERA 50 | Mineral and bulk material handling | 147 | 110 |
| ERA 33 | Crushing | 140 | 101 |
| ERA 53 | Organic material processing | 120 | 87 |
| ERA 55 | Other waste reprocessing or treatment | 106 | 79 |
| ERA 1 | Aquaculture | 85 | 45 |
| ERA 47 | Timber Milling and Woodchipping | 80 | 48 |
| ERA 15 | Fuel burning | 80 | 60 |
| ERA 25 | Meat Processing | 66 | 43 |
| ERA 61 | Thermal waste reprocessing and treatment | 56 | 40 |
| ERA 38 | Surface Coating | 54 | 27 |
| ERA 14 | Electricity generation | 49 | 41 |
| ERA 46 | Chemically treating timber | 46 | 32 |
| ERA 6 | Asphalt manufacturing | 40 | 31 |
| ERA 64 | Water treatment | 39 | 38 |
| ERA 29 | Metal Foundry Operation | 34 | 17 |
| ERA 20 | Extraction | 29 | 0 |
| ERA 31 | Mineral processing | 22 | 16 |
| ERA 27 | Seafood processing | 21 | 16 |
| ERA 22 | Beverage production | 19 | 9 |
| ERA 49 | Boat maintenance or repair | 18 | 14 |
| ERA 12 | Plastic product manufacturing | 18 | 13 |
| ERA 56 | Regulated waste storage | 17 | 0 |
| ERA 26 | Milk processing | 15 | 12 |
| ERA 28 | Sugar milling or refining | 14 | 12 |
| ERA 19 | Metal forming | 14 | 8 |
| ERA 23 | Bottling and canning | 11 | 8 |
| ERA 13 | Tyre manufacturing or retreading | 11 | 5 |
| ERA 17 | Abrasive Blasting | 11 | 0 |
| ERA 21 | Motor vehicle workshop operation | 8 | 0 |
| ERA 42 | Clay or ceramic products manufacturing | 7 | 2 |
| ERA 5 | Alcohol production | 6 | 4 |
| ERA 39 | Tanning | 6 | 6 |
| ERA 30 | Metal smelting and refining | 5 | 4 |
| ERA 58 | Regulated Waste Treatment | 5 | 0 |
| ERA 48 | Timber and laminated product fabrication | 5 | 4 |
| ERA 41 | Cement manufacturing | 4 | 4 |
| ERA 40 | Textile manufacturing | 4 | 1 |
| ERA 44 | Glass or glass fibre manufacturing | 4 | 3 |
| ERA 51 | Road tunnel ventilation stack operation | 3 | 1 |
| ERA 24 | Edible oil manufacturing or processing | 3 | 1 |
| ERA 59 | Tyre recycling | 3 | 0 |
| ERA 10 | Gas producing | 3 | 1 |
| ERA 43 | Animal housing | 3 | 0 |
| ERA 83 | Regulated Waste Transport | 3 | 0 |
| ERA 18 | Boiler making or engineering | 3 | 0 |
| ERA 35 | Plaster manufacturing | 3 | 3 |
| ERA 36 | Pulp or paper manufacturing | 2 | 2 |
| ERA 4 | Poultry farming | 2 | 1 |
| ERA 9 | Hydrocarbon gas refining | 1 | 1 |
| ERA 11 | Oil refining or processing | 1 | 1 |
| ERA 3 | Pig keeping | 1 | 0 |
| ERA 52 | Battery recycling | 1 | 0 |
| ERA 32 | Battery manufacturing | 1 | 1 |
| ERA 34 | Seafood processing | 1 | 0 |
| ERA 45 | Crushing | 1 | 0 |