Together we are conserving our ecosystems, maintaining clean water, fighting pollution, and protecting our biodiversity – for a brighter greener future.

A visionary plan to protect and expand Sydney’s green and blue spaces for present and future generations was released today, as a counterbalance to the growing population and push for denser development.

Total Environment Centre celebrates the Minns’ government decision to reaffirm Wentworth Park as a key green space for present and future residents. We can now confirm that the site will be retained in public hands, with housing uplift to be achieved around the site.*

Saul Dean, our Urban Campaigner, adds, "I think we dodged a bullet here, it became obvious major property developers were looking at the one billion dollar fish market play book again, to get their hands on more public land or maybe even public waterfront land, so it’s great to see the government stare down those interests.”

For more than 5 decades, TEC has stood for one big idea: that nature and communities deserve a powerful voice. We’ve seen a lot of change, including positive change, but our purpose has remains constant, and we’ve never lost sight of why we fight. We protect the living systems we all depend on, champion the species we love, and work alongside people who believe a thriving environment is the foundation of a thriving future.

Hundreds of surveys documenting dangerous microplastic pollution in NSW coastal environments has been compiled in a major report. Sydney stands out as the state’s worst and most consistently impacted region, however, other regional urbanised areas are also of concern. 

Alongside the Total Environment Centre and the Sydney Basin Koala Network called for independent oversight of Transport NSW’s Koala management practices which are consistently falling short of their own published standards, contributing to record Koala road deaths in South West Sydney. 

Yesterday's meeting of state and federal Environment Ministers was in disarray as Queensland, under its new LNP government, refused to take part in any national action on the circular economy including to reduce the environmental and economic costs from wasteful packaging, PFAS and plastics.   

All cars have environmental impacts. Electric cars are certainly better for the planet than fossil burners. But some electric cars are better than others. That’s why Total Environment Centre has now created the Green Electric Car Guide.

Our investigation into voluntary battery recycling under the failing battery stewardship scheme, B-cycle, identified many free rider producers evading responsibility for battery waste, and B-cycle participants, more often than not, failing to promote the scheme to their consumers.

With Australia’s environment ministers meeting in a few days, peak groups representing Australia’s waste management and resource recovery industry and the environment movement have come together to demand urgent mandatory regulation of all end-of-life (EoL) batteries, which, under current practices, pose serious risks to the environment and resource recovery sectors.

50-plus years is a long time to be engaged in the battle to protect the environment that we all depend on and share with an incredible array of animals and plants. That’s how long TEC has been working and we tell our story in our just released and beautifully designed Impact Report.

Manly Cove, one of Sydney Harbour’s most iconic swimming spots, has been revealed to be a microplastic hotspot, highlighting a widespread issue impacting popular coastal areas. According to a long-running survey conducted by AUSMAP, a project of Total Environment Centre, swimmers here are immersed in a soup of plastic pollution.

For the first time, important Koala habitat corridors throughout Greater Sydney have been mapped. Total Environment Centre's Sydney Basin Koala Network project created maps that present a cost-effective opportunity that allows Sydney’s critical Koala populations and other threatened species to persist amidst growing threats from development.