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An Illawarra man has been ordered to pay $33,500 for running an illegal cosmetic tanning business and failing to comply with a notice to cease and desist his operations. 

A Sydney cosmetic business has been ordered to forfeit all nine of its tanning beds and pay more than $35,000 for illegally operating cosmetic tanning services using ultra-violet radiation.

The owner of an unlicensed quarry in Balala has been ordered to pay $190,000 by the Armidale Local Court for extracting gravel at more than two and four times the legal limit.

For the first time, all licensed landfills and sewage treatment plants (STPs) in NSW will be required to monitor and report PFAS in wastewater under new EPA requirements that come into effect from...

Veolia has been issued four penalty notices for multiple licence breaches at its Woodlawn Landfill in Tarago.

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...