November 22, 2020
The $7 million Circular Economy Business Innovation Centre (CEBIC) has launched in Victoria to bring together businesses, industry groups, research institutions and not-for-profit organisations to create solutions to reduce waste, increase recycling and reuse, and generate new revenue for Victorian businesses. Launched by Victorian Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Lily
...November 19, 2020
In her new book "Waste," Catherine Coleman Flowers reveals how class, racial, and geographic prejudices foster unhealthy, even deadly, conditions by denying the poor an affordable means of disposing of their sewage.
November 19, 2020
In her new book "Waste," Catherine Coleman Flowers reveals how class, racial, and geographic prejudices foster unhealthy, even deadly, conditions by denying the poor an affordable means of disposing of their sewage.
November 18, 2020
Old, unwanted and potentially unsafe child car safety seats will be given a new lease of life under a government-funded program that will recover and recycle the seats. Via the National Product Stewardship Investment Fund (NPSIF), and in accordance with the National Waste Policy Action Plan, SeatCare aims to help the public safely dispose of used child car safety seats for recycling. It is estimated that
...November 15, 2020
Sydney Water is continually exploring and implementing innovative technologies to improve water services for its five million customers. In collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the water utility is improving strategies to reduce leaks and breaks across its network using acoustic sensors — selecting four leak-detections systems and deploying 229 acoustic sensors
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November 11, 2020
With everything that our world is facing in 2020, the last thing on the minds of leadership is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). That is unless YOU are a leader that sees economic recovery as an opportunity to get lean and design efficiencies.
November 11, 2020
A discovery by the UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre could start a ‘green aluminium’ manufacturing revolution and bolster efforts to advance Australia’s manufacturing industry. Backed by industry partner Nespresso, researchers at the SMaRT Centre have found a way to recover aluminium from complex, multilayered packaging. The new technique is
...November 6, 2020
From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular Myisha Majumder Fri, 11/06/2020 - 02:00 Solar has become a staple of the U.S. power generation mix in the last decade. Now that the industry is maturing, it’s time to have a tough conversation: The solar industry needs to improve its circular practices. Like any industry, the solar industry has unique
...November 1, 2020
Researchers at the University of South Australia have found that water quality and deficit irrigation schemes each have significant effects on crop development, yield and water productivity — with recycled wastewater achieving the best overall results. Publishing their results in the journal Agriculture, the team tested different water sources on greenhouse-grown tomatoes, finding that
...October 28, 2020
Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has launched Green Star Buildings — the first of a new suite of Green Star Future Focus tools. The Green Star sets a new requirement that buildings must be net zero — fully electric, fossil fuel-free and 100% powered by renewables — to achieve the highest possible 6 Star rating. With the biggest overhaul of its Green Star rating system in 18 years,
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