The South Australian government has become the first in Australia to introduce a Bill to ban some single-use plastic items, but it won't specify a commencement date because of the pandemic.
A company part-owned by ResourceCo wasn't misled in breach of the Australian Consumer Law, instead it failed to understand how four councils would decide what to do with their waste, a court has ruled.
South Australia diverted more than 83% of waste material from landfill and recycled the vast bulk of it in the state, says the first state-wide survey conducted since China restricted imports of recyclables.
A man who struck an agreement with Alinta to take unwanted equipment from a power station was today fined $24,500 for directing a torrent of abuse at EPA officers and using a rottweiler to hinder their investigation.