The Victorian Waste Management Association (VWMA) has begun work to develop a package of support to tackle rising insurance costs for its members. [ + ]

Twenty-six community groups are set to share in $242,657 to reduce waste, improve recycling and provide community education. [ + ]

The awards honour excellence in the fields of innovation and business community engagement in the clean energy sector. [ + ]

Said to be the largest of its kind in Australia, Wetherill Park's new resource recovery facility will transform non-recyclable waste into processed engineering fuel (PEF). [ + ]

Australia's clean and renewable energy event comes to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 3–4 October. [ + ]

SA Water will install more than 500,000 solar panels as part of its plan to own and operate South Australia's largest portfolio of distributed solar photovoltaic generation. [ + ]

Southern Oil has partnered with Melbourne Water in a project to build a demonstration-scale hydrothermal liquefaction reactor that will treat up to 1 million biosolids per annum. [ + ]

More than one million plastic water bottles have been saved through ICC Sydney's partnership with Sydney Water. [ + ]

A five-year, $5 million partnership between RMIT University and Melbourne Water will see experts in aquatic ecology and pollution research join forces. [ + ]

UQ is conducting research to deliver new technologies and processes to improve the sustainable production and use of chemicals, energy, transportation and more. [ + ]

Cleanaway Waste Management has taken delivery of 18 Scania 6x4 prime movers (six G 480s and 12 R 560 V8s) to service a new contract with a major Queensland council. [ + ]

BlueScope Steel has signed a substantial corporate renewable energy power purchase agreement with ESCO Pacific, the owner of the Finley Solar Farm project. [ + ]

The 7th Australian Industrial Ecology Conference will be held from 19–21 September at Rydges Parramatta. [ + ]

The Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA) has teamed up with longstanding IT media channel Technology Decisions to promote and grow the IT sector in Australia. [ + ]

Water conservation consultancy WaterGroup has sold its IoT-enabled water meter to Sydney Water, in a move that puts the water provider on track to becoming a digital utility. [ + ]