Fears asbestos-tainted material could have spread to Sydney homes

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There are fears Sydney’s asbestos crisis may include residential homes following the detection of contaminated mulch in at least 22 sites across Sydney. The material was first found at the Rozelle Parklands in Sydney’s inner west last month.

Sydney’s asbestos mulch crisis The NSW Government has launched a special task force, with more than 130 criminal investigators tracking down an unknown number of contaminated sites. Asked if the likely figure for the number of contaminated sites was in the hundreds, Premier Chris Minns said: “Yes.” That was the “worst case scenario” the state’s environmental regulator was working under, it said, while noting nine out of every 10 sites testing so far had been cleared.

 

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