A company that supplied processed waste for use on farms and mine sites – before the EPA suddenly banned the practice – has had a win in its fight against a charge that it provided false or misleading information.
A man who has already spent time in jail for fraudulently obtaining more than $200,000 by illegally disposing of asbestos-contaminated waste, now faces the possibility of a second jail sentence.
Waste company Bingo has failed to convince the NSW Supreme Court that any of 710 customers might be partly to blame if it is found to owe damages over allegedly contaminated aggregate sourced from one of its recycling facilities.
The ACCC has continued a losing streak of cases over company environmental claims, with the Full Federal Court dismissing its appeal about Woolworths' labelling.
In one of the largest penalties for a waste offence ever imposed in Queensland, Ipswich Magistrates Court has fined a landfill owner $300,000 for grossly exceeding the limit on the amount of waste it was entitled to receive.
In a big win for taxpayers, a court has rejected efforts by liquidators to disown responsibility for a site containing large stockpiles of abandoned industrial waste.
The director of a company that allegedly provided false information to secure a $729,000 recycling grant must hand over documents sought by the NSW Environmental Trust, a court has ruled.
A waste company now owned by Bingo Industries that received close to $300 million less than it sought in compensation for a compulsory property acquisition has had its appeal rejected.