Queensland Council claims record in war against landfill
A regional Queensland council says investing in a new recycling facility has helped it cut landfill by 65 per cent.
12 July, 2023A regional Queensland council says investing in a new recycling facility has helped it cut landfill by 65 per cent.
12 July, 2023Australia’s largest crumbed rubber asphalt project will see the equivalent of 3,600 tyres incorporated into roads across Sydney.
27 June, 2023A NSW waste depot is implementing a closed-loop water system which will see decontaminated landfill leachate used in glass recycling.
20 June, 2023Council waste management workers are facing a new threat from wrongly disposed of lithium batteries.
13 June, 2023A court has found that material stored by a Victorian recycling company is waste and must be disposed of.
5 June, 2023A audit has identified a range of issues in the way South Australian councils are managing sewerage services.
1 June, 2023Concrete is the major source of construction-related carbon emissions, but researchers are working to make it more environmentally friendly.
18 May, 2023A Sydney Council is using AI to reduce contamination in kerbside recycling bins.
2 May, 2023Partnerships with the private sector, industry and research institutions are helping the City of Melbourne achieve its climate goals.
28 April, 2023A WA coal town is the site of a new $10m demonstration energy from waste plant.
27 April, 2023Victoria has announced the operators for its drink container deposit scheme, which is set to begin in November.
17 April, 2023The government will build a high level nuclear dump to deal with waste as part of the AUKUS submarine program.
14 March, 2023Councils are taking recycling into their own hands following the collapse of a national soft plastic recycling scheme.
16 February, 2023For local government bodies that may not yet have developed a strategy or vision for dealing with textile waste, the reasons to do so are myriad and imperative.
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