Kedron Brook,Brisbane.

The Brisbane creeks with 4000 microplastics in just a kilo of sludge

QUT researchers sampled sediment from Kedron Brook,Enoggera and Bulimba creeks four times a year looking for plastics. They found a lot.

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The “deep burial” section of Werribee tip,in Melbourne’s west,where batteries were allegedly dumped.

Supermarkets seek answers over battery recycling scandal

Residents have reported fumes,fires and unusual activity at a scrapyard at the centre of improper battery recycling claims.

  • Ben Cubby
Former recycling company employees say millions of batteries dropped off at major retailers are being dumped,stockpiled or burned.

Hidden AirTags and ‘black mass’:The mystery of Australia’s missing batteries

The nation’s biggest battery recycling company is facing allegations of serious malpractice.

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Head of business development for Salvos’ Merielle Chamberlin,has experience as a textile engineer.

How an Australia-first facility is tackling south-east’s fashion waste

Second-hand clothing stores seem to be on every corner,but a new local facility is aiming to solve the issue of textile waste,with the help of AI.

  • Neesha Sinnya
A worker removes mulch at Rozelle Parklands,which was closed in 2024 after asbestos was found in several areas.

Infrastructure giant pays up after Rozelle asbestos-in-mulch saga

John Holland and a contractor have entered into an enforceable undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority over asbestos contamination.

  • Ben Cubby
Dave Szabo says the small he has to lock up his house multiple times a week to keep the stink out.

Meat processor told to stop ‘strongly offensive’ odour

Dave Szabo describes the smell outside his dream home as like “boiling meat … sometimes with a mix of burning hair or sometimes almost like septic”.

  • Julius Dennis
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Firefighters battle the petrol tanker crash at Medlow Bath in 1992. Test results suggest the fire may be a cause of the PFAS contamination.

The forever chemicals giving Blue Mountains peas no chance

EPA testing has found some Blue Mountains vegetable garden soils laced with poisonous chemicals.

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Kate with her two youngest children. Her Medlow Bath home has high levels of PFAS in the soil.

‘Nowhere to go’:Blue Mountains residents told not to eat their vegetables after PFAS found in garden soil

Residents in Medlow Bath near a suspected PFAS contamination site want their homes remediated. Instead,the NSW government has launched another investigation it says will take about 12 months – possibly beyond the next election.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A seal at Seal Rocks on Phillip Island.

How this team is helping fur seals escape the scourge of plastic waste

Eyes in the skies can pick out an injured animal easily,even in a colony of hundreds,allowing researchers to conduct targeted rescues.

  • Bianca Hall
A long-nosed fur seal seen by the Cooks River at Wolli Creek on Sunday.

‘Skeletal’ seal seeks respite in the Cooks River

It’s the same species as the healthy seals that frequently sun themselves on the VIP stairs at the Sydney Opera House.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons