Carbon recycling and abatement
Sensitive place notification
Plastics
Public registers
The EPA must maintain public registers that you can access online to find information about companies, environmental measures, and regulatory actions.
Landfill Emissions Abatement Program
When organics wastes breaks down in a landfill it creates methane. In NSW, methane from landfills makes up around 4% of all emissions. It also makes up 60-80% of local government’s direct and indirect emissions.
Coal combustion products
The EPA is demonstrating circular economy benefits by supporting the recovery of coal combustion products (CCPs) also known as coal ash to replace virgin materials.
Organisation structure
Monitoring the environmental condition of Lake Macquarie
The assessment into the ecological condition of Lake Macquarie was undertaken to measure the environmental conditions near power stations in the lake to assess the current condition, provide a basis for comparison in the future and contribute to any future remediation activities.