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Private investigators working for Nillumbik Shire Council documented the dumping of industrial waste at a property across the road from the Chetcutis’ Diamond Creek home.

A dirty job: How a father and son built one of state’s worst illegal dump sites in their own backyard

A father and son illegally built mountains of industrial waste in their own Diamond Creek backyard and on a nearby property, ignoring orders to stop for months.

  • Adam Carey

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An incredible waste … disposable slippers add to a massive pile of waste in the hotel industry.

The dark truth about hotel slippers

I never wear them. But the housekeepers in every hotel I stay in continue to unwrap them from their plastic coverings and put them by my bed regardless.

  • Lee Tulloch
Hutcheon said single-use plastics used outside the home lead to the most litter.

‘Nothing seems to be happening’: Is Queensland falling behind on plastic bans?

Queensland paused its single-use plastics road map two years ago and is yet to decide a new direction.

  • Julius Dennis
Firefighters at the C&D Recycling site in Lara, Victoria.

Illegal Lara waste dump sells for $16m. It cost $71m to clean up

Builder Hickory has bought what was once a bogus recycling plant in Lara where a 20-metre-high pile of rubbish cost the state $71 million to clean up.

  • Nicole Lindsay
Troy Rowe at the ReSource e-waste facility.

The cylinders being dumped across the city despite the risks they pose

While smaller silver “nang” chargers are better recognised, three-kilogram nitrous oxide canisters are becoming more common. They come with higher environmental and health risks.

  • Gemma Grant
The NSW Environment Protection Authority has issued a clean-up notice to Transport for NSW following investigations into the illegal storage of waste on a property in Shanes Park

Sydney’s $2.5m taxpayer-owned property that’s become a graveyard for waste

Abandoned tyres, solar panels, trucks, demolition waste and shipping containers are among items scattered across the property.

  • David Barwell
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The Lord Mayor said Brisbane City Council would push its contractor to improve collection rates.

Have your bins gone uncollected? Lord mayor says he’s ‘not happy’ with contractor

A 16-year collection contract worth almost $1 billion was issued in 2017. Now, Adrian Schrinner says the waste company is falling short of expectations.

  • William Davis
Domenic Svejkar from KBR Consultancy says Sydney should unearth its lost waterways to cool the environment.

The pitch to bring Sydney’s hidden waterways to the surface

Colonial maps show a city with vast waterways now lost beneath roads and buildings, but “daylighting” hidden waterways in the suburbs could help cool Sydney down as the climate changes.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
Carolyn Ingvarson a homeowner who has solar panels and also heads a community advocacy group that advises their neighbours on all things green energy and she says the current lack of recycling is a big barrier to many people installing panels at her home in Canterbury.

The dirty secret in Australia’s love affair with rooftop solar

Nearly 4 million solar panels are discarded every year, but a new recycling scheme could turn trash into treasure.

  • Mike Foley
The biosolid processing facility’s capacity will be increased at Sydney Water’s Glenfield water resource recovery facility as part of a $3 billion upgrade to reduce sewage at the Malabar deep ocean outfall.

The $3 billion fix promised for Sydney’s mysterious poo balls

A major upgrade of the city’s ageing sewerage system will also unlock housing development in south-west Sydney and could provide an environmentally friendly water source to data centres.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons