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Good morning and welcome to the rolling news blog. I’m Martin Farrer, here to bring you the best overnight and breaking stories before my colleague picks up the baton shortly.
The New South Wales mulch scandal widens again today with our exclusive story revealing that the material at the centre of the crisis has been found to contain building waste as well as asbestos. The state’s environment watchdog says it found the “foreign materials” when testing mulch made by Greenlife Resource Recovery at the Prospect Highway upgrade in Blacktown. Greenlife said it did not use construction waste in its recycled mulch which was made from “separated waste timber products”.
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