Carbon neutral certification expanded to cities, precincts and buildings: Hunt

Environment minister targets urban and built environment.

8 March, 2016

Put your rubbish in the mail? Australia Post to collect trashed plastic envelopes

Customers can upcycle spent satchels through the Post.

1 February, 2016

Help design the NSW container deposit scheme

Refunds or more bins?

13 January, 2016

Employment and Environment staff vote down Commonwealth pay offer

But ‘no’ vote appears to be shrinking.

15 December, 2015

NSW ditches environment targets – except for litter

You can’t manage what you can’t measure, says Mike Baird.

14 September, 2015

Finally: The RET is set

Two-yearly reviews dumped but wood burning retained.

19 May, 2015

Has an Aussie start-up cracked how to make tyre recycling sustainable and profitable?

Destructive distillation produces carbon, oil, steel . . . and profits.

16 April, 2015

Cash for cans a reality in NSW

Container deposit scheme will proceed.

5 February, 2015

Waters muddied over Great Barrier Reef health

Reef stoush continues.

30 January, 2015

Smarter NSW councils scoop environmental awards

NSW Local Government Environment Awards.

26 November, 2014

Smart Blocks elevate low impact living for high rises

Apartment blocks get the sustainability treatment

24 September, 2014

Victorian transport agencies slammed over environmental impacts

Auditor finds significant shortcomings

21 August, 2014

Deep dig for answers on disused mines

Sustainable legacies actively sought

16 July, 2014

Tech trash dwarfs Sydney Tower

By Julian Bajkowski Sydney’s Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, has declared that the volume of electronic waste being now junked by city residents has reached the level where unwanted devices could be stacked as high as the city’s tallest building, Sydney Tower. According to the City of Sydney’s tall claim, its residents turfed a whopping 2,218 […]

17 December, 2012