A New Zealand judge has described a contractor’s actions, when illegally dumping demolition material from the New Plymouth Airport terminal on a farm in North Taranaki as “deliberate” and “reckless”.
Truck driver to pay more than $145K over acid spill
A Victorian truck driver has been hit with a $50,000 fine and ordered to pay $95,000 for the clean-up after he drove away from the site of a sulphuric acid
UK waste contractor jailed for more than two years over illegal disposal
A Welsh contractor has been jailed for two years and three months after he was found to have illegally disposed of 100,000 tonnes of waste at a quarry in Somerset,
WorkSafe lays charges over dangerous goods storage
Victoria’s workplace safety regulator has charged Crossroads Logistics Pty Ltd over alleged breaches of the Dangerous Goods Act at their site in Tottenham, Melbourne. The business provides telecommunications logistics, warehouse
PFAS firefighting foam effectively banned in NSW
The NSW Government has moved to ban the use of PFAS firefighting foam, except in exceptional or catastrophic circumstances. The ban will cover PFAS foams’ use for training and demonstration