Recycling ecology park opens $100m mixed waste plant

Sustainability Matters

May 3, 2021

Sustainable recycling and waste management solutions provider BINGO Industries has opened what is claimed to be the world’s largest and most advanced dry mixed waste recycling facility at its Eastern Creek Recycling Ecology Park in Western Sydney. The new $100 million state-of-the-art recycling facility is fitted with some of the world’s most advanced resource recovery and manufacturing

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PDK: the new plastic with indefinite recycling capabilities

Sustainability Matters

April 29, 2021

An even worse situation exists in the US, where only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled. But a new plastic has potential to change this. Invented by a team led by Corinne Scown, Brett Helms, Jay Keasling and Kristin Persson at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), poly(diketoenamine), or PDK, has all the convenient properties of traditional plastics without the environmental

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How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025

GreenBiz Group

April 29, 2021

Plastic-free by 2025. That’s the goal for e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative, which sells household and personal care goods. Its offerings include its own product lines as well as products from other companies such as Burt's Bees, Mrs. Meyer's and Dr. Bronner's. "It is our intention to hold everyone to the zero-plastic commitment," Stuart Landesberg, Grove founder

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Workplace waste generation underestimated

Sustainability Matters

April 20, 2021

Contrary to what half of Australians believe, households do not create more waste than the business sector, reveals new research commissioned by Planet Ark. The research found that 47% of people want to make changes to increase recycling rates at work but only a third reportedly know where to find accurate information on how to do so. Planet Ark is taking steps to address these findings by releasing a new

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Kingsfield estate embraces sustainable roads

Sustainability Matters

April 18, 2021

Melbourne-based property group Moremac is adopting an array of sustainability initiatives for its Kingsfield estate in the city’s north-west, including building roads containing recycled materials. Reported to be the first residential estate in Victoria to use recycled, post-consumer materials in its roads, the process takes repurposed goods like glass, soft plastics, tyres and cartridges,

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Strategies for the war on waste

GreenBiz Group

April 16, 2021

What would happen if the United States enacted a comprehensive plan to combat food loss and waste? Now is the moment to ask, because the new U.S. administration is proving itself open to genuinely ambitious change. The answer? A cascade of benefits would follow, from economic savings to reduced hunger to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. A new action plan that’s just eight pages long but packed with

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Educating the next generation on the good, bad and ugly side of plastics

Sustainability Matters

April 12, 2021

Each school will engage in a 12-month learning experience, gaining a better understanding of the impact of plastic pollution on marine and freshwater environments. The students will be empowered to create solutions, whilst learning about recycling and other innovations that exist already. POA and Veolia are partnering to deliver the program as part of their aligned missions to increase education around

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Designing tech for a sustainable future

Sustainability Matters

April 11, 2021

The Australian technology sector is a global leader in many rights. While we’ve made our mark on the world stage as rapid adopters of new technologies, as innovators and as digital educators, many of us fail to realise that Australia is one of the highest contributors of e-waste globally. E-waste — or discarded electricals or electronic devices — is currently the world’s fastest

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How do I get my neighbors to stop littering?

Grist News

April 8, 2021

Litter is such a deeply complex salad of environmental issues!

Salmon oil makes sustainable plastic

Sustainability Matters

April 7, 2021

Derived from crude oil, toxic to synthesise and slow to break down, conventional polyurethanes are not environmentally friendly, but they are nearly everywhere. Researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland are now investigating ways to develop safe, biodegradable plastic alternatives to polyurethanes, derived from fish waste including heads, bones, skin and guts. If developed

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