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Your environment
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Air
- Air: NSW overview
- Clean Air Strategy 2021-30
- Air Emissions Inventory
- Non-road diesel and marine emissions
- Industrial emissions
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- Wood smoke emissions
- Open burning - reducing pollution
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Regional air quality
- Tackling coal mine dust
- Coal train dust management
- Air quality committees
- Lower Hunter air quality studies
- Blue Mountains and Lithgow Air Watch
- Newcastle local air quality monitoring network
- Upper Hunter air quality
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- Lake Macquarie dust monitoring program
- Namoi air quality monitoring
- Local government air quality toolkit
- Condensation trails
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Climate change
- Our climate change policy and action plan
- Climate change and NSW
- Climate change survey
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- The climate change threat
- Overseeing firming infrastructure's greenhouse gas emissions obligations
- Advances in greenhouse gas measurement
- NSW Guide for Large Emitters
- Resources
- Trends
- Contaminated land
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Dangerous goods
- Dangerous goods: NSW overview
- Video explainers
- Preventing fires – truck inspection manual
- Preparing for transport incidents
- Licensing and training
- Controls and when they apply
- Prohibited routes for dangerous goods transport
- Vehicle maintenance
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- Dangerous goods used for tools of trade or for personal use
- Determinations and exemptions
- Dangerous goods public register
- Household building and renovation
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Illegal dumping
- About illegal dumping and dumpers
- Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2022-2027
- Illegal dumping grant programs
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Prevent illegal dumping
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Manage an illegal dumping project
- Engaging the community through Clean-up Australia Day
- Collaborating across departments to reduce dumping
- Combatting commercial dumpers
- Deterring residential dumpers using a strategic approach
- Extending council capacity by engaging outdoor staff
- Using landscaping works to remove opportunities for dumpers
- Adapting surveillance techniques to deter different dumpers
- Engaging transient tenants
- Benefits of a whole-of-council approach
- Education resources
- Regional illegal dumping squads
- Free fill can cost you
- Charity bins and shops
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Manage an illegal dumping project
- Report illegal dumping - RIDonline
- Illegal dumping laws and penalties
- Please take responsibility for your donations
- Litter
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Native forestry
- Native forestry in NSW: an overview
- Regulating native forestry
- Protecting koala hubs in proposed Great Koala National Park assessment area
- EPA response to complaints in closed State Forests
- Bushfire-affected forestry operations
- Mapping and research
- Private native forestry
- Public native forestry
- Previous regulatory reforms
- Noise
- Onshore gas industry
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Pesticides
- NSW overview
- Preventing pesticide misuse
- Pesticide use in NSW
- Licences and advice for occupational pesticide users
- Integrated pest management
- Registration and off label use
- Compulsory pesticides training
- Compulsory record keeping
- Compulsory notification of pesticide use
- Pesticides licences public register
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Plastics
- About the bans
- Snapshot: National Roadmap: Harmonising action on problematic and unnecessary plastics
- Beat plastic pollution
- Plastics bans guidance
- Complying with the bans
- Plastics ban resources
- Exemptions guidance
- Plastics Action Plan
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Sustainability partnerships, 2022-23
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Case studies
- Environmental and Zoological Education Centres
- Girl Guides
- Green Action Program
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- OzGREEN
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- Surfing NSW
- University of Wollongong
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- Plastic Free July
- Southern Cross University
- KU Children's Services
- Take 3 for the Sea
- Addison Road and TAFE
- Working with our partners
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Case studies
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Radiation
- Managing radiation in NSW
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Sealed radioactive sources
- Security of sealed radioactive sources
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Radiation user licence
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Radiation management licence
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- Solaria (tanning units)
- Publications and consultation documents
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Recycling and reuse
- Commercial and industrial waste audit 2023
- Strategic direction for waste in NSW
- Recycling and reuse in NSW
- Waste avoidance and resource recovery strategy
- Waste Less, Recycle More
- Return and Earn
- Response to the enforcement of the China National Sword Policy
- Resource recovery framework
- Household recycling
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Business and government waste reduction and recovery
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Business Program
- Bin Trim tool for reducing waste
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Bin Trim business stories
- Tackling production waste
- Circular cafes project reduces food waste sent to landfill
- Putting coffee waste to good use
- Diverting glass from landfill to asphalt
- Making briquettes from timber waste
- Recycling waste plastic using a moulding tool
- Composting food waste
- Saving money by using cardboard packaging
- Recycling textiles
- Closing the loop on PVC waste
- Mobile Foam Muncher
- Refillable pouches replace single-use plastics
- Business waste and recycling research
- Food organics and garden organics
- Recycling organics at work
- Circulate, NSW Industrial Ecology Program
- What can my business recycle?
- Waste wise events
- Business recycling directory
- Standard recycling signs
- Publications for business and industry
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Business Program
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Waste
- Waste: NSW overview
- Reducing your household waste
- Local council operations
- Waste facilities
- Waste levy
- Managing industrial waste
- Classifying waste
- Transporting waste
- Integrated waste tracking solution
- Tracking waste tyres and asbestos waste
- Tracking waste from the Metropolitan Levy Area
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- Assistance to remove waste after disasters
- Managing waste in emergencies and disasters
- Water
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Air
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Reporting and incidents
- Incident management
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Report pollution
- Air pollution
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Chemical and radiation pollution
- Report to EPA from your mobile
- Girraween incident
- Girraween vegetation dieback incident
- Incident prevention and preparedness
- Incident response and recovery
- Incident status
- Protocol for industry notification of pollution incidents
- Managing odours in Mulgrave and South Windsor
- Reporting pollution
- Western Sydney odours
- Motor vehicle pollution
- Noise pollution
- Smoky vessels
- Waste and litter pollution
- Contacts for water pollution
- Other environmental concerns
- Orica incident
- Mine regulation
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Flood recovery programs
- Aboriginal lands flood recovery program
- Agricultural chemical clean-up program
- Crown Lands Flood Impact Assessment Program
- Darling-Baaka flood recovery program
- Hawkesbury-Nepean River clean-up program
- Flood Contaminated Lands Assessment Program (Northern Rivers)
- Flood debris maintenance program
- Illegal dumping and flood waste recovery program
- Flood recovery program for water quality monitoring - East Coast
- Closed flood clean-up programs
- Macquarie River / Wambuul flood recovery program
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Licensing and regulation
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Legislation and compliance
- Acts administered by EPA
- Other NSW environmental legislation
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- About the POEO Act
- Notices and other regulatory documents
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Licensing
- eConnect EPA
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Environment protection licences
- Licensing under POEO Act 1997
- Guide to licensing
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- Risk-based licensing
- Load-based licensing
- Emissions trading
- Pollution Incident Response Management Plans
- National Pollutant Inventory
- Compliance audit program
- Wind farm regulation
- Native forest biomaterial
- Regulation of railway activities
- Amendment Regulation for scheduled activities
- Dangerous goods licences
- Environmentally hazardous chemicals licences
- Pesticide licences
- Radiation licences
- Mutual recognition
- Automatic mutual recognition
- Pre-construction works for transport infrastructure
- Consultation on Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment
- Draft Amendment to Protection of the Environment Operations Regulation (Scheduled Activities) 2016: Questions and answers
- Regulation
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Public registers
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POEO Public register
- What's in the public register?
- Licences, applications and notices search
- Enforceable undertakings search
- Enforceable undertakings media releases
- Prosecutions or civil proceedings search
- Terms of use: POEO public register
- Licensing FAQs
- List of licences
- Unlicensed premises regulated by the EPA
- Using LBL data
- Contaminated land record search
- Current plastics exemptions
- Suppressing personal information from the EPA public registers
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POEO Public register
- Authorised officers and enforcement officers
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Working together
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Community engagement
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Community news: updates on current and ongoing issues
- Sydney landfill shortage
- Lake Illawarra snap-shot contamination assessment
- Beach debris ball investigation
- Investigation at Wheeny Creek
- Odour investigations
- Woodlawn Eco Precinct, Tarago
- Mullumbimby PFAS investigation
- Tantangara Dam algal bloom
- 22 Geelans Road Arcadia
- Investigation into alleged falsified sampling results
- Nambucca Valley sewage overflows
- Kanwal General Store and Fuel Supplies
- Asbestos in mulch investigation
- Broadwater clean-up program
- Flat Rock Creek fish kill
- The Cadia region
- Menindee fish deaths follow up: Darling-Baaka River water tests
- Water sampling – Turon River near Sunny Corner
- Wickham: Newcastle Ampol Fuel terminal
- Boral hydrocarbon spill – South Lismore
- Cabbage Tree Island sampling results
- Leadville contamination
- Broadwater clean up
- Noise investigations
- Parramatta River fish kills
- Metropolitan Collieries
- Legacy lead in Wollongong soil and dust
- Mannering Park, Lake Macquarie, fish kills
- Remediated land monitoring at Rhodes Peninsula
- Darcy Road drain sampling
- Truegain former waste processing facility
- Synthetic turf used in sports fields
- Warringah freeway upgrade: air quality monitoring
- Captains Flat
- Mangrove Mountain landfill
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Botany Bay
- Environmental issues and incidents
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Orica Botany
- Botany community forum 7 March 2013
- Get involved
- Independent review into off-site mercury at Orica Botany
- An explanation of mercury deposition
- Management and remediation of the Orica Botany site
- Mercury ambient air monitoring results
- Steering Panel meetings
- RAAF Base Williamtown PFAS contamination
- Community committees
- Regulation of coal mines
- Regulation of power stations
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Community news: updates on current and ongoing issues
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Grants
- AWT Research and Development Grant
- Flood recovery programs
- Bushfire recovery programs
- Council Regional Capacity Building Program
- Plastics Research Program
- Business recycling grants
- Funding for local councils and voluntary groups
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Waste and recycling infrastructure fund
- Circular Plastics Program
- Circular solar
- NSW Plastics Technology – Recycling Modernisation Fund
- Major Resource Recovery Infrastructure Program
- Product Improvement Program
- Remanufacture NSW
- Remanufacture NSW: Regional and Remote Recycling Modernisation Fund
- Resource recovery facility expansion and enhancement
- Weighbridge fund
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- Illegal dumping grants
- Organics funding
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