Browsing: Chemicals

An industry association that failed to run its mercury recovery scheme in compliance with the federal stewardship law has successfully lobbied for special treatment for lighting importers when Australia ratifies the Minamata Convention.

• Cleanaway seeks permit to import PFAS waste
  
• Aldi sets new zero-waste goal
  
• Australia Post partners with REDcycle on soft plastics

• Wilkie introduces federal EPA Bill
  
• Rio Tinto board backs two climate resolutions
  
• Orica seeks approval to export more HCB waste

The NSW government today gazetted a regulation that will ban the use of PFAS fire-fighting foams.

The Victorian government has lost a preliminary skirmish in a dispute over liability for large quantities of illegally stored industrial waste.

• Cleanaway chief executive to step down
  
• Australia sets date to ratify PFAS and PFOA Stockholm Convention amendments
  
• Victoria approves Latrobe Valley battery recycling facility

Australia's approach to regulating agvet chemicals is "untenable" and must change, says a review commissioned by the federal government.

Environment Minister Sussan Ley has introduced a Bill that will standardise regulatory systems for managing the health and environmental risks of industrial chemicals.

• SA Labor introduces Bill to ban PFAS in most landfills
  
• Federal environment department 'assessing' e-waste service provider
  
• WA regulator fails to meet compliance goal

• Greens push for net-zero by 2035
  
• Viva Energy investigates solar farm in refinery buffer zone
  
• Farmers warned of ban on PFAS in food-contact packaging