A simple back yard landscaping job became something more complicated for Steve Douglas when he discovered a top dressing applied to his lawn in the NSW southern highlands was littered with glass, plastic and other debris.
“As I watered the lawn, or when it rained, the finer materials would wash through to reveal debris and rubbish – plastic, glass fragments, glass shards, electrical wire fragments and lots of semi-degraded plastic bag fragments and oyster shells,” Douglas says.
