A Victorian tribunal has cleared the way for the state's first waste gasification plant to be built, after ordering that the original EPA works approval be amended.
A former company director who signed a contract with a major battery recycler to take lead-contaminated plastic has been fined $22,500 after leaving waste on a site that cost almost $756,000 to remove.
The Federal Court today rejected the ACCC's arguments that Kimberly-Clark had misleadingly claimed its wet wipes were safe for sewerage systems, and criticised the Commission's tactics in the appeal hearing.
In a decision with crucial ramifications for Melbourne's capacity to dispose of waste, Victoria's Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by developers against the expansion of Cleanaway's Ravenhall landfill.
A Victorian tribunal has granted the state government's Metropolitan Waste Resource Recovery Group full status as a party to a dispute between an environmental organisation and a company proposing a waste gasification plant.
Western Australia's Supreme Court has ruled that a company is liable for the actions of an employee driver who dumped waste, despite being told by the company's director to dispose of it lawfully.
A Whitehaven Coal subsidiary must pay $120,000 and publish prominent ads in newspapers about its environmental breaches, after discarded emergency devices allegedly caused fires at a landfill.
EPA Victoria has laid 10 charges against chemical storage operator Bradbury Industrial Services Pty Ltd and its director Paul Anthony Bristow, following a 2019 fire at one of its sites.