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        • Reducing diesel emissions from coal mines
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          • Technical framework: Assessment and management of odour from stationary sources in NSW
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          • Check you're using your heater correctly
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          • Check your wood is aged and dry
          • Don't let your fire smoulder overnight
          • Dos and don'ts of wood heating
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        • Wood smoke resources for local government
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        • Upper Hunter Wood Smoke Community Research project
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        • Tackling coal mine dust
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        • Module 1: the science of air quality
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        • Module 4: practical regulation of air pollution
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            • Botany Bay and Georges River: PFAS investigations
          • Botany Industrial Park
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          • Guidance
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        • Changes to the regulation of industrial chemicals keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard
          • New scheduled activities for environmentally hazardous chemicals
          • Chemical use notices
          • Streamlining the NSW regulatory framework for managing industrial chemicals
          • Converting EHC licences to environment protection licences
        • National and international regulatory frameworks
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        • Chemical control order requirements
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        • Fact sheet: about the policy and action plan
        • Fact sheet: opportunities for councils
        • Information for the agricultural sector
        • Fact sheet: fugitive methane
        • Fact sheet: information for proponents and licensees
      • Climate change and NSW
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        • Survey results
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        • Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of the NSW electricity grid
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        • Summary – UNSW greenhouse gas survey in Western Sydney
      • NSW Guide for Large Emitters
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        • Extreme weather events
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          • CLM Act and Regulation
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          • Policy on former Unhealthy Building Land sites
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        • Engaging a consultant
        • Duty to report contamination
        • About the NEPM amendment
        • Paying for EPA cost recovery
      • Notified and regulated contaminated land keyboard_arrow_right
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        • List of notified sites
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          • Tips for searching record of notices
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        • Site auditor accreditation process
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      • Underground petroleum storage systems keyboard_arrow_right
        Underground petroleum storage systems east
        • Fuel System Operation Plans
        • Exemptions from the UPSS Regulation
        • Resources for implementing the UPSS Regulation
        • Protecting communities reliant on groundwater from the risk of leaking underground petroleum storage systems – summary report
      • Other contamination issues keyboard_arrow_right
        Other contamination issues east
        • Legacy asbestos fill sites
        • Managing asbestos in and on land
        • Former gasworks sites
        • Hunters Hill remediation
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    • Dangerous goods keyboard_arrow_right
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      • Dangerous goods: NSW overview keyboard_arrow_right
        Dangerous goods: NSW overview east
        • Consigning and loading dangerous goods for transport
      • Video explainers
      • Preventing fires – truck inspection manual
      • Preparing for transport incidents
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      • Determinations and exemptions
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        • Terms of use: dangerous goods public register
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      • Treated timber keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Working with and handling treated timber safely
        • Timber pests and fungi
        • Timber treatments keyboard_arrow_right
          Timber treatments east
          • Boron-based treated timber
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          • Light organic solvent preservative (LOSP)
          • Alternative copper based timber treatments
          • Creosote treated timber
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        • Treated timber regulation and standards keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Codes, labels and branding
        • Safe disposal of treated timber
      • Dealing with household asbestos keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Facilities that accept household asbestos
        • Social research to improve asbestos management
        • Disposing of household asbestos
      • Lead safety
    • Illegal dumping keyboard_arrow_right
      Illegal dumping east
      • About illegal dumping and dumpers keyboard_arrow_right
        About illegal dumping and dumpers east
        • Types of illegally dumped waste
      • Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2022-2027 keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Implementation Plan
      • Illegal dumping grant programs
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        • Manage an illegal dumping project keyboard_arrow_right
          Manage an illegal dumping project east
          • Engaging the community through Clean-up Australia Day
          • Collaborating across departments to reduce dumping
          • Combatting commercial dumpers
          • Deterring residential dumpers using a strategic approach
          • Extending council capacity by engaging outdoor staff
          • Using landscaping works to remove opportunities for dumpers
          • Adapting surveillance techniques to deter different dumpers
          • Engaging transient tenants
          • Benefits of a whole-of-council approach
        • Education resources
        • Regional illegal dumping squads
        • Free fill can cost you
        • Charity bins and shops
      • Report illegal dumping - RIDonline
      • Illegal dumping laws and penalties
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    • Litter keyboard_arrow_right
      Litter east
      • NSW Litter Prevention Strategy keyboard_arrow_right
        NSW Litter Prevention Strategy east
        • Litter Prevention Implementation Plan
        • Litter prevention program evaluation
      • Report littering keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Litter laws
        • Enforcement and training campaigns
        • Report littering from vehicles: frequently asked questions
      • Don't be a tosser!
      • Funding and grants for litter prevention keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Grants available keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Streets to Sea
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          • Community litter grants
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          • Litter - Regional Implementation Program
          • Cigarette Butt Litter Prevention Grants Program
      • Resources keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Litter library
        • Own it and Act strategic framework
        • Litter prevention kits
        • Local litter check
      • Research keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Using bottles to track the movement of litter
        • Microplastics monitoring
      • Targeted programs keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Reducing cigarette butt litter
        • Balloon litter
        • Operation Clean Sweep keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Best practice stormwater management
          • Preventing plastic feedstock entering the environment
      • Data and targets keyboard_arrow_right
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        • 2022-23 litter data for NSW keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Litter composition by density
          • Litter composition by volume
          • Container deposit scheme: beverage container litter
          • Litter location
    • Native forestry keyboard_arrow_right
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      • Native forestry in NSW: an overview keyboard_arrow_right
        Native forestry in NSW: an overview east
        • Native forestry regulatory framework
      • Regulating native forestry keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Compliance update
        • Inspections of forestry operations
        • Register of Crown forestry investigations
        • Reporting forestry incidents
        • Stop Work Orders
      • Protecting koala hubs in proposed Great Koala National Park assessment area
      • EPA response to complaints in closed State Forests
      • Bushfire-affected forestry operations keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Status of operations
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        • Koala habitat and occupancy keyboard_arrow_right
          Koala habitat and occupancy east
          • Mapping koala occurrence
          • Trialling koala habitat maps
          • Modelling koala habitat
        • Threatened ecological communities
      • Private native forestry keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Codes of Practice
        • Old growth forest and rainforest
        • Conducting private native forestry keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Introduction to PNF - video playlist
          • Technical series
          • PNF advisory notes
          • Endangered ecological communities identification guides
        • Training clips
      • Public native forestry keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Regional Forest Agreements keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Review
        • NSW Forest Agreements keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Review of NSW Forest Agreements and IFOAs
        • Integrated forestry operations approvals (IFOAs) keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Coastal IFOA keyboard_arrow_right
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            • Reducing the cumulative impacts of forestry operations in the Coastal IFOA
            • Measuring diameter at stump height over bark (DSHOB) as defined in the Coastal IFOA
            • Eden Region IFOA
            • Lower North East Region IFOA
            • Southern Region IFOA
            • Upper North East Region IFOA
          • South Western Cypress Region IFOA
          • Riverina red gum IFOA
          • Brigalow and Nandewar IFOA
      • Previous regulatory reforms keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Coastal IFOA remake keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Coastal IFOA discussion paper keyboard_arrow_right
            Coastal IFOA discussion paper east
            • Submissions
          • Trial of the Coastal IFOA
          • Threatened Species Expert Panel
          • Review of the Threatened Species Licence Framework
    • Noise keyboard_arrow_right
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      • Neighbourhood noise keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Preventing neighbourhood noise
        • Dealing with barking dogs
        • Managing noise from intruder alarms
        • Seeking noise abatement orders
      • Motor vehicle noise keyboard_arrow_right
        Motor vehicle noise east
        • Avoid having noisy vehicle exhaust
        • Noise camera trial
        • Reporting noisy motor vehicle exhaust
      • Transport noise
      • Industrial noise keyboard_arrow_right
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        • NSW industrial noise policy keyboard_arrow_right
          NSW industrial noise policy east
          • Applying the NSW industrial noise policy
          • Frequently asked questions
          • Noise enhancement wind analysis program
          • Validating the inversion strength estimation method
        • Noise Policy for Industry (2017)
        • Construction noise
        • Assessing vibration
      • Regulating noise keyboard_arrow_right
        Regulating noise east
        • Approved methods for measurement and analysis of environmental noise
        • Noise guide for local government
        • POEO Noise Regulation
        • Target shooting ranges
    • Onshore gas industry keyboard_arrow_right
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      • Onshore gas industry: overview
      • Compliance and enforcement
      • Working with other government agencies
      • Working with the community
      • Safeguarding future environmental liabilities
      • Reporting pollution or a non-compliance
    • Pesticides keyboard_arrow_right
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      • NSW overview keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Regulating pesticides keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Pesticides Act
          • Pesticides Regulation 2017 keyboard_arrow_right
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            • Pesticides Regulation 2017 consultation
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          • Guidance for using 1080
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        • Education and monitoring campaigns and investigations keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Intensive horticulture and protected cropping
          • Macquarie Valley monitoring program
          • Nambucca Valley waterways monitoring
          • Woolgoolga compliance inspections
        • Avoiding pesticide spray drift
        • Safe disposal of pesticides
      • Pesticide use in NSW keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Engaging a pest management technician
        • Schools, childcare centres and pesticides
      • Licences and advice for occupational pesticide users keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Aerially applying pesticides
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          • Pesticide notification advice
        • Ground applicators
        • Farming and production horticulture
        • Applying antifouling paints at marinas
      • Integrated pest management keyboard_arrow_right
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        • IPM: NSW case studies
      • Registration and off label use
      • Compulsory pesticides training keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Trainers in pesticide use
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        • Sample pesticide application record
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        • Sensitive place notification
        • Common area prior notification
        • Notification plans for public authorities
      • Pesticides licences public register
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      • About the bans keyboard_arrow_right
        About the bans east
        • Frequently asked questions
      • Snapshot: National Roadmap: Harmonising action on problematic and unnecessary plastics
      • Beat plastic pollution
      • Plastics bans guidance keyboard_arrow_right
        Plastics bans guidance east
        • Plastics definition for suppliers
        • Plastics bans and packaged food and drinks
        • Plastic phase outs - guidance for industry
        • Information for community organisations and not-for-profits
        • Information for schools and education providers
      • Complying with the bans
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        • Alternatives to banned single-use plastic items
        • Banned single-use plastic items
        • Brochures and posters
      • Exemptions guidance keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Provide feedback or seek an exemption keyboard_arrow_right
          Provide feedback or seek an exemption east
          • Seeking an exemption from the PRCE Act 2021 - suppliers
          • Continued need to use plastic item banned under the PRCE Act 2021
        • Plastic single-use straws
        • Plastic adhesives exemption guidance
        • Plastic single-use cotton buds and plastic single-use bowls
      • Plastics Action Plan keyboard_arrow_right
        Plastics Action Plan east
        • Outcomes
      • Sustainability partnerships, 2022-23 keyboard_arrow_right
        Sustainability partnerships, 2022-23 east
        • Case studies keyboard_arrow_right
          Case studies east
          • Environmental and Zoological Education Centres
          • Girl Guides
          • Green Action Program
          • Great Plastic Rescue
          • Green Connect
          • Green Music
          • OzGREEN
          • Mens Shed
          • Meals on Wheels
          • Surfing NSW
          • University of Wollongong
          • University of New England
          • Plastic Free July
          • Southern Cross University
          • KU Children's Services
          • Take 3 for the Sea
          • Addison Road and TAFE
        • Working with our partners
      • News and media releases
    • Radiation keyboard_arrow_right
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      • Managing radiation in NSW keyboard_arrow_right
        Managing radiation in NSW east
        • Changes to radiation protection laws
      • Sealed radioactive sources keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Security of sealed radioactive sources keyboard_arrow_right
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          • Requirements for responsible persons
          • Categorisation of sealed radioactive sources
          • Responsibilities of employees and other persons plans
          • Endorsement of security plans
          • Requirements for identity checks
          • Threat level
          • Change of source details
          • Radiation security assessors keyboard_arrow_right
            Radiation security assessors east
            • Application for accreditation
          • Frequently asked questions
      • Radiation user licence keyboard_arrow_right
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        • Introduction keyboard_arrow_right
          Introduction east
          • eConnect online licensing
          • Radiation user licence - conditions
          • Radiation user licence - criteria keyboard_arrow_right
            Radiation user licence - criteria east
            • Radiation Advisory Council radioactive substances activity threshold
          • Applications under mutual recognition
          • Exemptions and supervision requirements
          • List of radiation safety courses and providers
          • Renewals and variations
          • Fees and forms keyboard_arrow_right
            Fees and forms east
            • Radiation user licence fees
        • Information for user licence holders keyboard_arrow_right
          Information for user licence holders east
          • Remote operators
        • Information for course providers
      • Radiation management licence keyboard_arrow_right
        Radiation management licence east
        • Requirements
        • Exemptions
        • Conditions
        • Compliance certification and record keeping
        • Renewals and variations
        • Fees and forms keyboard_arrow_right
          Fees and forms east
          • Radiation management licence fees
        • FAQs
        • Information for licence holders keyboard_arrow_right
          Information for licence holders east
          • Safety officers and safety committees
          • Disposal of regulated material
          • Preparation of radiation management plans
          • Radiation monitoring keyboard_arrow_right
            Radiation monitoring east
            • Personal radiation monitoring
            • Approval of personal monitoring devices and providers
            • PMD providers
            • Area monitoring devices
            • Maintenance of monitoring devices
          • Radiation accidents
          • Shielding for premises
      • Consulting radiation experts keyboard_arrow_right
        Consulting radiation experts east
        • Accreditation types
        • CRE accreditation criteria
        • Information for consulting radiation experts
        • List of accredited CREs
        • Fees and forms
      • Radiation applications
      • Radiation licences public register
      • Radiation protection information keyboard_arrow_right
        Radiation protection information east
        • Use of human subjects in medical research
        • Household smoke detectors
        • Whole body scanning
        • Information on lasers
      • Solaria (tanning units)
      • Publications and consultation documents
    • Recycling and reuse keyboard_arrow_right
      Recycling and reuse east
      • Commercial and industrial waste audit 2023
      • Strategic direction for waste in NSW keyboard_arrow_right
        Strategic direction for waste in NSW east
        • Carbon recycling and abatement
        • Submissions responding to the Minister's letter to stakeholders
        • Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy keyboard_arrow_right
          Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy east
          • Meeting our future infrastructure and service needs
          • Reducing carbon emissions
          • Building on our work to protect the environment and human health from waste pollution
      • Recycling and reuse in NSW
      • Waste avoidance and resource recovery strategy keyboard_arrow_right
        Waste avoidance and resource recovery strategy east
        • Waste hierarchy
        • Product stewardship schemes keyboard_arrow_right
          Product stewardship schemes east
          • E-waste
          • Packaging
        • For policy makers keyboard_arrow_right
          For policy makers east
          • Waste data surveys
        • Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy Progress Report
        • NSW waste and resource recovery infrastructure
      • Waste Less, Recycle More keyboard_arrow_right
        Waste Less, Recycle More east
        • Changing behaviour together: education strategy
        • Boosting infrastructure
      • Return and Earn keyboard_arrow_right
        Return and Earn east
        • Material recovery facility operator keyboard_arrow_right
          Material recovery facility operator east
          • Application container factor material type
          • Bottle crushing operators' annual recycling statement
        • Information for suppliers of drink containers
      • Response to the enforcement of the China National Sword Policy keyboard_arrow_right
        Response to the enforcement of the China National Sword Policy east
        • Inter-governmental taskforce
        • Circular Economy Policy
      • Resource recovery framework keyboard_arrow_right
        Resource recovery framework east
        • Independent review
        • Current orders and exemptions keyboard_arrow_right
          Current orders and exemptions east
          • Biosolids
        • Mixed Waste Organic Material keyboard_arrow_right
          Mixed Waste Organic Material east
          • EPA research
          • Alternative Waste Technology transition package
          • Compost and biosolids
          • Questions and answers
          • Background information
        • Apply for an order and exemption
      • Household recycling keyboard_arrow_right
        Household recycling east
        • FOGO information for households keyboard_arrow_right
          FOGO information for households east
          • FOGO frequently asked questions
        • Recycling organics at home
        • Community Recycling Centres
        • Household Chemical CleanOut
        • Find CRCs or Chemical CleanOuts
        • Safe battery recycling
        • Embedded batteries
      • Business and government waste reduction and recovery keyboard_arrow_right
        Business and government waste reduction and recovery east
        • Business Program keyboard_arrow_right
          Business Program east
          • Bin Trim tool for reducing waste
          • Bin Trim business stories keyboard_arrow_right
            Bin Trim business stories east
            • Tackling production waste
            • Circular cafes project reduces food waste sent to landfill
            • Putting coffee waste to good use
            • Diverting glass from landfill to asphalt
            • Making briquettes from timber waste
            • Recycling waste plastic using a moulding tool
            • Composting food waste
            • Saving money by using cardboard packaging
            • Recycling textiles
            • Closing the loop on PVC waste
            • Mobile Foam Muncher
            • Refillable pouches replace single-use plastics
          • Business waste and recycling research
        • Food organics and garden organics keyboard_arrow_right
          Food organics and garden organics east
          • FOGO mandates and rollout
          • NSW FOGO services
          • FOGO masterclass series
          • Cool Compost
          • Emissions impacts of food waste recovery technologies
          • Research on FOGO
          • Scrap Together FOGO education
        • Recycling organics at work keyboard_arrow_right
          Recycling organics at work east
          • Donate food: feed people, not landfill
          • Buying and using recycled organics products
        • Circulate, NSW Industrial Ecology Program
        • What can my business recycle? keyboard_arrow_right
          What can my business recycle? east
          • Using recycled materials for construction
          • Glass fines
          • Timber waste
          • Expanded polystyrene
        • Waste wise events keyboard_arrow_right
          Waste wise events east
          • Waste for public places and events
        • Business recycling directory
        • Standard recycling signs
        • Publications for business and industry
    • Waste keyboard_arrow_right
      Waste east
      • Waste: NSW overview keyboard_arrow_right
        Waste: NSW overview east
        • Regulations in NSW keyboard_arrow_right
          Regulations in NSW east
          • POEO (Waste) Regulation 2014
          • Land pollution offence
        • Licensing keyboard_arrow_right
          Licensing east
          • Reduced licensing thresholds
        • Scrap metal facilities standards
        • Waste performance data keyboard_arrow_right
          Waste performance data east
          • Data quality statement
      • Reducing your household waste keyboard_arrow_right
        Reducing your household waste east
        • Love Food Hate Waste
        • What are microbeads?
      • Local council operations keyboard_arrow_right
        Local council operations east
        • Resources for local council waste and recycling operations
        • Joint procurement facilitation service keyboard_arrow_right
          Joint procurement facilitation service east
          • Joint procurement case studies keyboard_arrow_right
            Joint procurement case studies east
            • Albury Council and the Riverina and Murray Joint Organisation
            • Shellharbour and Wollongong City Councils
            • Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
            • Project 24s joint procurement process
        • Waste planning in development applications
        • Rural and regional waste transfer stations
        • E-RAMP risk assessment tool
        • Strategic waste action plan tool
        • Full cost of landfill
        • Waste publications and reports
      • Waste facilities keyboard_arrow_right
        Waste facilities east
        • Landfill sites keyboard_arrow_right
          Landfill sites east
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