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Barrow Island inhabitants include small kangaroos, big perentie lizards, turtles and many native fauna species eradicated from the mainland.

State must crack down on Chevron’s toxic soil use in WA, say advocates

The US oil and gas giant is “privileged” to operate its export plant in a biodiversity haven off the WA coast. But the pollution of the site has become a concern.

  • Emma Young

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The Hallam Road landfill in Hampton Park.

Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate

While the government has sought another lift to the cap on how much rubbish can be burned each year, proposed waste-to-energy projects are meeting community backlash and regulatory barriers.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
The Hallam Road landfill in Hampton Park.

‘Risk to human health’: EPA knocks back giant waste transfer station

Communities in Melbourne’s southeast are celebrating the refusal to allow Veolia to build a waste transfer station, in a blow to council waste disposal plans.

  • Adam Carey
Fire Rescue Victoria’s Josh Smith says lithium-ion battery fires are an increasing concern.

Garbage trucks are catching fire. Your battery could be to blame

Victoria’s fire service has been responding to almost one fire each day caused by lithium-ion batteries. Firefighters fear the trend will worsen.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Each Australian consumes around 2 kilos of salmon per year.

Planning tonight’s dinner? Don’t eat Atlantic salmon before reading this

Some people are under the illusion that farmed salmon is a sustainable industry. But if you’re feeling hungry, read this first.

  • Peter Singer
World Expo 88 in South Bank, Brisbane.

How Brisbane’s kerbside collection sent me back nearly four decades

Few council services generate as much excitement as the kerbside pick-up, and none more so than this year’s, which turned up a bona fide treasure.

  • Cameron Atfield
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Australia’s oldest commercial wind farm is due to shut down in 2027.

This wind farm is retiring, so what happens to its tonnes of steel?

Wind and solar power is cutting emissions, but millions of disused panels and tonnes of turbine waste raise questions about how green clean energy really is.

  • Mike Foley and Bianca Hall
I am stuck in a vicious cycle of attempting to recycle, and no amount of colour-coded bins can save me.

Red, yellow or green? The stress of putting the wrong thing in the wrong bin

I am stuck in a vicious cycle of attempting to recycle, and no number of colour-coded bins can save me. 

  • Thomas Mitchell
The Plasrefine recycling facility was planned for construction next to a critical medical research mouse-breeding facility.

Fear of thousands of cannibal mice helped sink a huge NSW recycling plant

Australia’s largest recycling plant was set to be built next to a crucial medical facility – and the potential impacts were dire.

  • Angus Dalton
Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel

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