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Western Sydney company BSV Tyre Recycling Australia Pty Ltd has been ordered to pay $20,000 for dangerously and excessively stockpiling waste tyres following prosecution by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA).
EPA Executive Director Regulatory Operations Carmen Dwyer said stockpiled tyres were a potential fire hazard and strict conditions applied to their storage to minimise risk of fire danger and to keep the community safe.
“Once alight, rubber tyres are extremely difficult to extinguish. They generate a large amount of heat and a large volume of smoke, both of which pose a risk to the community, environment and to firefighters,” Ms Dwyer said.
Sydneysiders have taken to decorating telephone poles with Covid stickers after leaving hospitals dotted around the city.
Hundreds of coloured stickers have been stuck to poles outside St Vincent s Hospital in Darlinghurst and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown.
Those that have had no need to visit hospitals in recent times were perplexed by the recent trend, which started after Covid first hit the city.
When visitors enter Sydney hospitals to visit a patient they are asked a set of Covid-related questions to sign in, before being handed a sticker if deemed low risk.
The admittance sticker colour changes daily to prevent people from coming back the following day without checking in, prompting an influx of old stickers to be discarded on traffic light poles.
NSW’s $108.5bn infrastructure spend: Where is the money going?
By Fergus Halliday
23 June 2021
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The NSW state government just announced a record-setting amount of new infrastructure spending. Here’s where that money is going.
As part of this year’s state budget, the NSW government has announced $108.5 billion in infrastructure spending over the next four years.
Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said, “NSW already has regained the ground lost during COVID-19, but it is hard to believe that only 12 months ago, our state was nearing the deepest point of its first recession in nearly 30 years.”
“The state’s exceptional performance through COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of pride in NSW, and we are investing more in our own backyard to enhance communities and tourist and cultural attractions in the city and the bush,” he said.
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New study on brain cooling turns treatment advice on its head
A large international study on the effects of cooling the brain after a cardiac arrest shows that contrary to current treatment recommendations, it doesn’t actually improve survival or recovery. The study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that a less intensive approach to temperature control in these patients may be warranted. Dr Manoj Saxena, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and intensive care doctor at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, helped lead the study for Australian hospitals that took part.
“Since 2005, treatment guidelines for unconscious cardiac arrest patients have recommended cooling the body temperature down to 33 degrees Celsius,” he said.