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Published on: 02 Jul 2024
Hundreds of thousands of birthdays will be celebrated in NSW this month, and with ‘Plastic Free July’ kicking off, we’re challenging every party plann...
EPA
Plastics
Published on: 28 Jun 2024
A former landfill site at St Peters in Sydney’s Inner West, now part of the St Peters Interchange, has been declared significantly contaminated by the...
Contaminated land
EPA
Landfill
Published on: 26 Jun 2024
A sand quarry near Dubbo has been fined $210,000 after polluting the Macquarie River with dirty water.
Fine
Water
EPA
Macquarie River near Dubbo
Published on: 24 Jun 2024
The company and director of a skip bin waste removal business have been fined a total of $60,000 in Parramatta Local Court for leaving 6,000 cubic met...
Prosecution
Waste
EPA
Illegally dumped building material
Published on: 17 Jun 2024
The NSW community saved $432 million last year through second-hand shopping, helping to ease the cost-of-living crisis according to a new study into t...
Recycling and reuse
Waste
EPA
Group of people at Addison Road, making bags from plastics
Published on: 14 Jun 2024
Visy Pulp and Paper Pty Ltd must pay more than $200,000 after untreated wastewater from their Tumut paper mill polluted local creeks in October 2022.
Water
Fine
EPA
Gilmore Creek, near Snowy Mountains Highway
Published on: 06 Jun 2024
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is calling for nominations for members of a new advisory group, ensuring community and environmental ad...
Climate change
EPA
Murrumbidgee River, Balranald
Published on: 04 Jun 2024
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is doorknocking and talking to residents in the Mullumbimby area after PFAS was found in groundwater.
PFAS
EPA
Child drinking out of a water bubbler
Published on: 03 Jun 2024
The NSW Government is taking significant steps to reduce waste ending up in landfill and boost recycling efforts, with two discussion papers opening t...
Waste
EPA
mini fogo bins on kitchen benchtop with plate of food scraps and dead flowers