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Since plastic was introduced 70 years ago, it has become part of our everyday life. While plastic is a versatile material that can play an important role in some products, we know that unnecessary or problematic plastic items can have disastrous impacts on our environment and wildlife.

The NSW Plastics Action Plan sets out the first six actions to achieve four long term outcomes to better manage plastics and reduce the impact they have on the environment.

Catch up with the latest news on plastics.

Further inspections and tests will be conducted by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) this week as the investigation into mulch that contained bonded asbestos at Rozelle Parklands and Transport for NSW infrastructure sites continues.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has handed two Clean Up Notices to Transport for NSW (TfNSW) and Sydney Metro, as part of its ongoing investigation into the discovery of bonded asbestos in mulch at Rozelle Parklands and other TfNSW infrastructure sites.

Endangered Southern Greater Gliders across the east coast of NSW will be better protected under NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) amendments to forestry rules that will protect more hollow-bearing trees in operations where gliders are present.

The EPA has completed 4 flood recovery programs for the storms and floods of 2021 and 2022. These programs were funded under the joint Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements and will be evaluated before June 2024 to make sure they were effective and delivered on key objectives.