About the duty to manage contaminated land

The duty to manage requires you to take reasonably practicable measures to minimise risks of harm to human health and the environment from the contamination...

Development licence approved for Advanced Recycling

A development licence has been approved to build a plastic resource recovery plant in Altona, which will convert end-of-life plastics into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon products Environment...

New soft plastics warehouse discovered

Environment Protection Authority Victoria’s (EPA) investigation of soft plastics storage has uncovered another warehouse stockpiling materials. The discovery brings the total number of...

Put dairy ponds on your farm 'to do' list, says EPA

EPA Victoria (EPA) officers returning from inspections in South Gippsland’s dairying districts say farmers should be putting dairy effluent ponds on their ‘to do’ list before winter...

Specific land uses

Even with good pollution control technology and practice, there can be a risk of off-site impacts from infrastructure and industrial premises. These specific land uses are singled out as having...

Cement Australia

Overview Applicant: Cement Australia Pty Ltd Activity site: 353-467 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne, 3207 Application number: APP007913 Cement Australia Pty Ltd have applied for a development licence...

Transporter adds a waste record to a group

Find out how a transporter can add a waste record to a group in EPA’s waste tracker portal...

Receive waste

Find out how to receive waste in EPA’s waste tracker portal...

Household waste

How to manage and recycle household waste. Includes landfills, hazardous waste and how to report litter...

Odour

Learn about odour pollution, what the law says about odour, EPA’s role and how to report odour...