Higher waste costs could bury savings.
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Has an Aussie start-up cracked how to make tyre recycling sustainable and profitable?
Destructive distillation produces carbon, oil, steel . . . and profits.
New green bins gobble food to halve landfill
Waste supporting ponds
Randwick Council tops NSW council sustainability awards
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski There’s no shortage of awards and prizes for sustainability initiatives, but Sydney’s Randwick City Council has taken out top honours over its state local…
Policy wasteland wafts from Perth dump
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The president of the Western Australia Local Government Association (WALGA), Troy Pickard, tipped a bucket on both the State Government and Opposition over environmentally…
Councils get lessons on electronic waste
As part of delivering its national recycling program, Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform Limited (ANZRP) is running a series of information sessions to update local government on collection and…
Low recycling in WA
By Lilia Guan The West Australia Local Government Association (WALGA) believes data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Report into the waste industry, showed WA as having one of the…
Nuclear debate heats up behind closed doors
By Lilia Guan Additional reporting by Paul Hemsley According to Bob Hawke the greatest contribution Australia could make to the nuclear cycle would be to take the world’s nuclear…