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Bin sins: common recycling mistakes and how to avoid them

With so many bins, and ever more complex packaging, recycling in Australia can be complicated and confusing. Here’s what not to do

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SA:Company fined $1.1m over deadly sewage truck crash

A record $1.1 million fine has been imposed on a waste management company that had denied culpability over a sewage truck crash that killed two people.

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Company fined $1.1m over deadly sewage truck crash

A record $1.1 million fine has been imposed on a waste management company that had denied culpability over a sewage truck crash that killed two people.

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Licence to burn: Victoria is changing the way it deals with rubbish – is it moving too fast?

Full health and environmental impacts of increasingly relying on waste-to-energy plants to deal with state’s rubbish still unknown

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Residents demand health inquiry into 'waste odour'

A massive fine for a waste operator has sparked calls by frustrated residents for an investigation into the health impact of "rotten egg" and "chemical" odours.

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Where does the Fogo go? The challenge of recovering Sydney’s green waste – and how you can help

Food and garden rubbish is sorted and then cooked to produce rich compost at this waste management centre

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Ten of Australia’s top companies lack clear plans to stop using or supporting fossil fuels, report says

UTS researchers say firms including Coles, Woolworths, Telstra, Rio Tinto and Qantas have no ‘comprehensive, independently verified and fully costed plan’ to reduce emissions

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‘Disgusting stench’: the Queenslanders fighting for clean, fresh air

Residents say they are ‘sick and tired’ of foul smell that hangs over their Ipswich homes and have called for public health inquiry

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States wash hands of 40,000 bathtubs worth of sanitiser

Massive amounts of hand sanitiser could be put to new use after thousands of tonnes of the product expired in government stores.

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'Waste' of money: Residents outraged at paying twice for rubbish disposal

'Why am I paying for something that I don't use?'

Newcastle Herald

Worker's broken hand lands Cleanaway in court over alleged safety breach

The Commonwealth prosecutor says a worker's hand was damaged when caught in a baler.

The Canberra Times

Bins Across Syd Vic To Be Left Uncollected As Garbos Strike For Better Working Conditions

This will be the sixth time waste workers will strike in Sydney in less than five months.

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Rubbish piles up as garbo strikes spread across country

Bins will go uncollected in Sydney and Geelong as Cleanaway garbos walk off the job and the union calls for state governments to help settle the dispute.

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Protester struck during union action

A man has been hit by a truck while protesting at a union action at waste company Cleanaway's Malaga operations in Perth on Wednesday.

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Perth, Mandurah rubbish collectors to strike as industrial dispute with Cleanaway escalates

Bins may not be picked up in several local government areas as the union representing garbage collectors takes industrial action over pay and conditions.

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Bins uncollected as Canberra Cleanaway workers strike

The strike is against work conditions, including cuts in overtime rates.

The New Daily

Bins uncollected as garbos strike in Sydney, Canberra

Cleanaway truck drivers are striking for 24-hours, affecting garbage collection in parts of Sydney and Canberra with workers concerned about pay and conditions.

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Rubbish situation: Sydney bins left uncollected for weeks as workers strike over pay

Fair Work Commission intervenes after union files lawsuit against waste contractor Cleanaway

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Business calls on govt to clean up Sydney rubbish row

Business Sydney wants the state government to urgently end a dispute that's left thousands of tonnes of garbage piling up uncollected ahead of World Pride.

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Union sues amid garbage collector strikes

Waste management firm Cleanaway could face $125,000 in penalties for allegedly blocking union members from engaging in legal industrial action.

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Garbo strike leaves Sydney stewing in its own stench

Striking garbage workers have left 35,000 bins uncollected in inner-Sydney, wreaking havoc on residents' sense of smell and hygiene.

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Ipswich mayor hails 'good outcome' as government plans to close smelly Cleanaway landfill cell

A flooded landfill cell causes chronic odour issues for residents and a costly clean-up for Cleanaway at their New Chum landfill near Ipswich.

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SA garbos strike over rostering issues

Garbage truck drivers employed by Cleanaway in Adelaide have gone on strike for 24 hours over a rostering dispute.

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Cleanaway Operations spared six out of eight convictions over fatal 2014 South-Eastern Freeway crash

Cleanaway Operations has had six of its eight convictions relating to a fatal crash on Adelaide's South-Eastern Freeway set aside following an appeal.

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Sydney news: Man guilty of 1988 Scott Johnson murder to be sentenced

MORNING BRIEFING: The man who has admitted his guilt in the 1988 murder of Scott Johnson faces sentencing.

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