The Commonwealth has launched legal action in the Federal Court of Australia against 3M Australia and 3M Company, seeking to recover costs associated with PFAS contamination at 28 Defence bases across
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Fine for repeatedly burning industrial waste
EPA Victoria has fined the occupier of a Sunbury property for the second time in six months for illegally burning industrial waste. Paul Attwell’s company Active Farming has been fined a total of
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28-tonnes of burnt industrial waste leads to fine
A 28-tonne load of burnt industrial waste at Portland has cost a Horsham company $10,000 after a fire, a call to the pollution hotline and an inspection by EPA Victoria. Wimmera
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Victoria waives levies for bush fire waste
Victorians who are recovering from the Summer 2026 bushfires can now safely dispose of their disaster fire waste free of charge.
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Council’s waste facilities’ 12 battery-related fires a month
Beat up batteries carelessly tossed in the bin are causing headaches for City of Moreton Bay’s waste facility workers who have already had to deal with two fires in the past week alone at Bunya. In
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Video: How quickly a battery fire can start
Have you ever seen just how fast a battery fire can break out when a battery ignites inside a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)? This video shows it in real time, and it happens in seconds.
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Vic EPA to use drones to keep eye on resource recycling facilities
EPA Victoria will use drones this summer to check waste and resource recovery businesses are doing all they can to prevent fires breaking out.
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Hampton Park garden supply business fined over bonfire
A bonfire of mixed green and industrial waste materials has cost a Hampton Park garden supply centre a $5,769 fine.
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