Technology developed by rapidly growing Australian PFAS pollution remediation specialist EPOC Enviro will be deployed from this week to clean up one of the world’s largest PFAS contaminated sites – a former 3M plant in Minnesota.
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.
Peak lobbying groups in the packaging industry are pushing for the removal of PFAS chemicals from fibre-based packaging because of concerns about the risk to human health and possible contamination of composted food.
The federal environment department was concerned that a Woodside proposal to sink an ageing piece of offshore infrastructure could potentially contaminate up to 700 million tonnes of sediment near Ningaloo Reef, newly-released documents show.
Two companies and a director linked to a site where a large chemicals fire occurred have failed to convince a court to summarily dismiss attempts to recover clean-up costs from them.