Revealed: Top 30 Australian councils for recycling mobile phones

Councils in the ring for MobileMuster awards.

16 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

Fridge Buyback scheme returns to NSW

New rules makes ditching second fridge easier.

14 October, 2015

Melbourne council creates the Internet of Rubbish

Talking trash cans tell garbos when to get going.

13 August, 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

New green bins gobble food to halve landfill

Waste supporting ponds

22 September, 2014

Clover Moore gets a rise from pop-up bins with PINs

Buried Italian dumpsters clear streets, confound rodents

11 August, 2014

Disabled jobs binned in national e-waste scheme strife

Warning that charities are being turned into ‘above-ground landfills’.

22 July, 2014

Libraries lend a hand to Sydney e-waste collection

By Paul Hemsley Low energy light bulbs might be a bright idea to cut household electricity bills, but the City of Sydney is now being forced to come up with innovative new ways to keep literally tonnes of the otherwise toxic lamps out of household rubbish bins. As the volume of small scale e-waste explodes, […]

15 October, 2013

Taronga Zoo sustainability accolade roars for SITA

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Resource and waste management company SITA has collected a key environmental sustainability award for tailoring a waste management program for Sydney’s Taronga Zoo to boost its recycling output to divert rubbish away from landfill. The company has been recognised at the 2013 Australian Business Awards where the company took […]

19 July, 2013

WA container deposit scheme gathers public support

By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) has continued to kick the can over a proposed “cash for containers” scheme to reduce litter and kerbside rubbish in the run-up to the state election in March 2013, saying its petition for the scheme has received 1590 signatures. The West’s local government body has […]

26 February, 2013

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