Category: Resource & Waste Management

A NSW council’s initiative to address hoarding has been so successful it’s being adopted in LGAs across Australia.

Queensland has introduced tougher regulations for composting facilities after an ongoing battle against smelly waste.

Councils are piloting kerbside soft plastics collection as part of a national scheme developed by the food and grocery industry.

City of Sydney Council will use maggots to convert residential food scraps into animal feed and fertiliser.

A new $26m new recycling centre will be built in the ACT.

The Queensland fire service has launched an Australia-first trial of a low emissions truck run on treated vegetable oil.

A Victorian council is trialling the use of coffee grounds in concrete footpaths as a replacement for sand.

The NSW government is accused of withholding more than half a billion dollars a year in waste levies collected from local councils

Western Sydney councils have met with visiting Dutch experts to share ideas on waste management and the circular economy.

Engineers from RMIT have collaborated with a recycling company to make energy-smart bricks out of recycled material including ash and glass.