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A Newcastle company has been fined $30,000 for failing to maintain its plant equipment, resulting in sewage-like odours from its dairy processing facility.

From Western Sydney to the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, offenders who dump waste on public and private land are the focus of an EPA program.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority can confirm that its POEO public register has been affected by a data breach.

Sydney Water Corporation has been ordered to pay $240,000 over a sewage spill at Carramar in Sydney, after pleading guilty to two offences in the Land and Environment Court.

Gunnedah Quarry Products Pty Ltd (GQP) has been ordered to pay $52,000 for a breach of its Environment Protection Licence at the Marys Mount landfill in Mullaley.

More than $10 million has been awarded to businesses, organisations and Councils who are rescuing food waste across NSW.

Battery-related fires will be reduced following nation-leading battery regulation and the expansion of a major public safety campaign to keep dangerous batteries out of household bins.

Plastics that pollute our waterways, litter our parks and neighbourhoods, and contaminate our recycling efforts are set to be phased out.

The NSW Government has announced waste levy rates will not rise above the Consumer Price Index in the 2026–27 financial year.

The NSW Government is taking further action to reduce plastic waste, announcing the next phase of single-use and problematic plastic phase-outs.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority has been working closely with NSW Maritime, Randwick City Council, and scientists to determine the origin of thousands of black balls that washed up on Eastern...