Pressure from bedding supply chain companies to cut a proposed mattress stewardship levy will limit what the voluntary scheme can initially achieve, according to the industry body designing the scheme.
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.
In a move with major ramifications for bagasse packaging, the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation has released a plan to remove PFAS from food-contact fibre packaging by the end of next year.
In a move likely to result in large volumes of Melbourne's residual waste being sent for energy recovery, the ACCC has approved 16 councils to jointly procure processing services.
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.
ARENA has invited applications from companies, utilities, and industrial precincts for a share in grants totalling $43 million to fund "transformational" projects.