NSW is getting serious on contaminated soil. It only took 10 years – and the media doing lab tests

The environment watchdog has promised to crack down on products made from recycled construction waste. But will it actually implement change?

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It's taken more than a decade but the New South Wales environment watchdog is now talking tough when it comes to the safety of recycled landscaping materials.

Last week the chief executive of the state's Environment Protection Authority, Tony Chappel, announced a crackdown on waste facilities producing a type of cheap landscaping soil - called recovered fines - made from recycled construction and demolition waste.

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