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Residents in North Lake Macquarie can now dispose of their soil at most licenced landfills, NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Executive Director Hazardous Incidents and Environmental Health Stephen Beaman advised today.

AGL Macquarie has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to contribute $100,000 to local air quality and weed eradication projects following a breach of regulations around the management of coal ash.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority has fined Boral Cement Limited $15,000 after dust pollution from its cement operations impacted residents’ cars in the Southern Highlands community of New Berrima in June this year.

Thousands more NSW households and businesses will be able to recycle their food and garden waste with $10.9 million being awarded to 23 projects to support new collections and processing capacity.

The NSW Government is awarding more than $23 million in grants to fund new infrastructure to increase recycling and support the use of recycled materials in manufacturing.

The NSW Government’s highly successful Return and Earn container deposit scheme has had its second birthday and continues to deliver big wins for the environment and the community.

The NSW Government has waived the waste levy fee for residents disposing of bushfire generated waste in areas across NSW that have been declared bushfire Natural Disaster Areas.