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Environment
Maeve Bannister, Jack Gramenz and Samantha Lock

Legal fight brewing as park asbestos scandal spreads

There has been a spate of park closures in Sydney after asbestos was found in garden mulch. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A recycled mulch supplier fears it will be the "scapegoat" for supply chain issues it says have caused asbestos-contaminated material to be spread across parks, hospitals, schools and train stations.

Dangerous friable asbestos has been found at a central Sydney park, the latest in a string of detections at multiple sites across NSW after the initial discovery of bonded asbestos at the Rozelle Parklands in Sydney's inner west in January.

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