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Polluters can be fined up to $2.5 million under amending legislation passed by the NT Parliament, while Territory Environment Minister Karl Hampton has extended consultation on Environmental Assessment Act changes and has specified the containers to be covered by a new deposit refund scheme.

The Northern Territory Government will in November introduce legislation to phase-out lightweight plastic bags by the middle of next year.

• NT Minister lobbies for national container deposit scheme
  
• NSW roads agency approves first project using crushed waste glass
  
• IEA sounds warning: emissions must peak by 2020
  
• U.S. provides $1.85 billion for two solar projects

• New council aims to boost product stewardship expertise
  
• SITA seeks EPA Victoria approval for major waste treatment facility
  
• NT environment department issues notice to Oz Minerals

• Hamersley mine expansion needs a new back-up fix, says WA EPA
  
• NT developing CDL law for 2011, SA sets out compliance statistics
  
• NZ urged to join rest of OECD on environmental reporting

• Gore to business summit – 'act this year, not next year' (with video link)
  
• Greens seek 'consensus mandate'
  
• NT EPA calls for overhaul of assessment law
  
• NSW Government issues underground fuel tanks guide
  
• SA issues draft waste guides