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.
AGL says the coal ash dam at its Bayswater power plant will be full within two years, unless it is upgraded, and the company also plans to reduce saline discharges from the site.
In a move likely to be widely welcomed by water utilities, the ACCC will appeal a Federal Court decision that cleared Kimberly-Clark of misleadingly claiming wet wipes were flushable.
Removing PFAS from landfill leachate is expensive, and water utilities lack a consistent approach to accepting discharges to sewer, says a leading waste industry association.