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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: 01 Oct 2023
Pre-schools and food courts will be among the 4,000 small to medium NSW businesses helping to divert approximately 35,000 tonnes of waste from landfil...
Waste
Climate change
Ministerial
Compactor machine on landfill
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: 26 Sep 2023
Water quality monitoring in the Darling Barka River will get a boost under a $5 million NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) disaster recovery p...
Water
Ministerial
Darling-Barka River
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
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