Former Truegain site owner to pay $400K over failure to clean up contamination
The owner of a former waste oil refinery in Rutherford has been convicted for failing to comply with a clean-up notice and a prohibition notice.
Case study: Cat & Cow Coffee's single-use surcharge
Cat & Cow opened as a reusable-cup-only café in August 2019, after fitting out the premises using recycled materials and second-hand equipment.
Fact sheet: Myths vs reality
Café owners often defer to common myths and misconceptions when thinking about incorporating reusables. Myths usually reflect a fear of change, rather than the reality of the situation.
Fact sheets and guides: The Reusable Café Project
Learn our best advice on starting a reusable initiative at your café.
How to guide: Maximising reuse back-of-house
This how-to guide outlines the things you can do right now to eliminate several single-use items. It also introduces initiatives which are not yet widely available in NSW, but well worth exploring for future use.
2023-24 litter data for NSW
This report details the findings from the NSW Key Littered Items Study (KLIS) for 2023–24.
Litter composition by density | 2023-24
The graphs in this section show the composition of litter density data recorded by the study in 2023–24, reported as the number of items per 1000m².
Litter composition by volume | 2023-24
The graphs in this section show the composition of litter volume data recorded by the study in 2023-24, reported as the number of litres per 1000m².
Container deposit scheme: beverage container litter | 2023-24
The Key Littered Items Study has tracked changes in beverage container litter since the 2017 introduction of the Container Deposit Scheme.
Litter location | 2023-24
The KLIS monitoring sites are in mangroves in urban estuaries.