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Published on: 06 Oct 2023
Disposing of household problem waste is now easier than ever for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in NSW thanks to an accessib...
Waste
Recycling and reuse
EPA
Bins and sections of Community Recycling Centre
Published on: 03 Oct 2023
Spring has begun and for farmers and crop growers, this means that the use of pesticides and herbicides is about to increase.
Pesticides
EPA
Pesticide spray unit from rear with spray arms extended
Published on: 03 Oct 2023
A new landfill gas capture system installed at Bellettes Landfill last week is expected to significantly reduce odours that have been impacting the Tu...
Air
Waste
EPA
Odour mitigating pipes in a landfill
Published on: 03 Oct 2023
Grafton business Clarence Valley Metal Recyclers (CVMR) has been ordered to pay more than $149,000 in fines and legal costs for exploiting the Return ...
Fine
Recycling and reuse
EPA
Child inserting  can into a Return and Earn reverse vending machine
Published on: 29 Sep 2023
Newcrest’s Cadia Holdings Pty Ltd plead guilty today (29 September) in the Land and Environment Court to a breach of the Protection of the Environment...
Prosecution
Air
EPA
Aerial photograph of the Cadia gold mine
Published on: 22 Sep 2023
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has identified the pollutant which caused a major crayfish kill in a tributary of Hazelbrook Creek in t...
Pesticides
Water
EPA
Giant spiny crayfish (Euastacus spinifer)
Published on: 20 Sep 2023
Ampol must pay $700,000 towards four community projects in a legally binding agreement with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA). This comes...
Enforceable undertaking
Water
EPA
Oily floodwaters on street in Kurnell, with cleanup truck
Published on: 20 Sep 2023
NSW recyclers achieved an incredible environmental milestone on 15 September, celebrating a staggering 10 billion bottles and cans recycled through th...
Recycling and reuse
Plastics
EPA
Minister Penny Sharpe and CEO Tony Chappel at a Return and Earn site
Published on: 20 Sep 2023
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is appealing for information after the discovery of a number of dead native birds in a reserve at the e...
Pesticides
EPA
Currawong on a rock