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Wasting food wastes money and the considerable energy, water and other resources used to produce food. Preventing food waste is the best outcome for the environment. The EPA’s Love Food Hate Waste program shows NSW households and businesses how to avoid wasting food.

Most businesses produce some form of organics waste – whether employees’ lunch scraps, food business waste, or garden trimmings from landscaped areas. Recycling this organics material is an easy way for businesses to reduce the amount of waste sent for disposal.

Recycling can reduce waste disposal costs, enhance businesses’ reputation and benefit the community and environment. These fact sheets provide advice on how small and medium-sized businesses can avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle different materials.

All licences attract annual administrative fees and some licences will also require payment of annual load-based fees.

NSW planning authorities regulate contaminated land that is not 'significantly contaminated' through the planning and development process. These lands do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment under the current, approved use of the land.

The Approved Methods for the Modelling and Assessment of Air Pollutants in NSW (2022) lists the statutory methods to be used for modelling and assessing emissions of air pollutants in NSW.