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• Environment ministers to hold their first meeting in 18 months
  
• APCO admits PFAS plan doesn't have ministerial approval
  
• Beach Energy advances CO2 storage plans, to expand scope 3 reporting

In a move with major ramifications for bagasse packaging, the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation has released a plan to remove PFAS from food-contact fibre packaging by the end of next year.

• Westpac provides ESG training to more than 3,000 staff
  
• Tox Free authorised to accept PFAS liquid waste at Karratha
  
• New approach to pastoral lands won't prevent carbon offsetting: SA Labor

Two companies and a director linked to a site where a large chemicals fire occurred have failed to convince a court to summarily dismiss attempts to recover clean-up costs from them.

A federally-funded study by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation has found high PFAS levels in a significant proportion of food-contact fibre packaging.

• Cleanaway faces multiple charges over licence breaches
  
• Sims to produce hydrogen from recycling residues
  
• Federal government gazettes Minimata mercury treaty rules

The federal government has granted Cleanaway a permit to import up to 100 tonnes of PFAS-contaminated waste for destruction.

• 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