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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Nugrow | History Defined

Company at centre of NSW asbestos crisis argues EPA ban on selling mulch is having ‘unjustified impact’

Exclusive: Firm points to risk of asbestos contamination from other sources as it seeks to have prevention order thrown out

The Guardian - AU · Mar 7, 2024

No further asbestos detected in Qld mulch supplies

Only one positive asbestos result has been returned from 23 waste facilities and landscape businesses after concerns of an outbreak in Queensland's southeast.

AAP · Mar 1, 2024

Deadline blows out to clean up asbestos ground zero

The closure of a park less than a month after it opened because of contaminated mulch kicked off an asbestos scandal that has spread outside NSW.

AAP · Feb 29, 2024

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Queensland asbestos: two more schools join list of places supplied with potentially contaminated soil

There are now three Queensland schools, a dog park, as well as 16 businesses that may have received soil with friable asbestos

The Guardian - AU · Feb 29, 2024

Asbestos tainted mulch might have been sent to school

More than 20 Queensland sites have been supplied mulch that might contain asbestos after the hazardous material was detected at a site west of Brisbane.

AAP · Feb 28, 2024

Queensland school among 25 entities supplied with mulch that could be contaminated with friable asbestos

Revelation comes amid NSW asbestos crisis after contaminant found in mulch at more than 60 Sydney locations

The Guardian - AU · Feb 28, 2024

‘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

The Guardian - AU · Dec 1, 2023

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