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.
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.
A court has ordered a recycling company to pay more than $0.5 million for exceeding processing restrictions, and has rejected key evidence given by its managing director.
In a move that will lead to scrutiny of companies including Macquarie-owned Bingo Industries, the NSW EPA has asked the ACCC to examine skip bin pricing in the state.
In a significant victory for the recycling industry, the NSW EPA today abandoned plans to tighten restrictions on using residues left over from construction waste.
In an unusual move, the NSW EPA has appealed the sentence imposed by a judge in a waste test case, two years after it successfully appealed her initial ruling in the matter.
Weston Aluminium has failed to convince a court that it shouldn't pay waste levy contributions because it is merely processing waste, not disposing of it.
A new NSW law puts more pressure on companies to cut packaging waste, tightens controls on plastic, and enables financial assurance requirements to be imposed on brand owners.
The director of a company facing multiple waste charges has failed to convince a court that evidence extracted by the EPA from his password-protected mobile phone was inadmissible.