A company involved in a Supreme Court dispute with a council over recycled-content road base has failed to secure an order that its insurer pay its legal costs.
The former chief executive of waste company Bingo, Daniel Tartak, has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting price-fixing in the demolition waste industry, the ACCC has announced.
Veolia will pay $590,000 and has agreed to permanently close its Horsley Park waste management facility, after NSW EPA officers found fragments of asbestos at the site.
In a move likely to result in large volumes of Melbourne's residual waste being sent for energy recovery, the ACCC has approved 16 councils to jointly procure processing services.
NSW should make it possible for materials to be declassified as wastes, and should re-examine its current asbestos rules, an independent review has recommended.