Central Waste Plant Pty Ltd will pay the NSW Environment Protection Authority more than $125,000 after its Kurri Kurri facility received more than double the amount of waste allowed.
The company received 96,000 tonnes of waste for recycling in the year leading up to March 2020, more than 60,000 tonnes more than allowed by its Environment Protection License.
This is the third consecutive year the license condition was allegedly breached.
EPA Acting Director Regulatory Operations David Gathercole said he hoped the punishment would serve as a warning for waste companies to clean up their act.
“It is important to manage waste correctly, to set an example and to protect our environment," Mr Gathercole said.
Central Waste Plant will be required to front the cost of clean-up and conservation works totaling $93,500, involving the disposal of asbestos and remediation of illegally dumped waste in the Tomalpin Woodlands.
Another $18,000 will go toward the protection of Cessnock's critically endangered Regent Honeyeater as well as $15,000 to cover legal fees and investigation costs.
