Horticultural Innovation Australia has launched the Plant Life Balance campaign, which is designed to get Australians excited about styling their homes with plants by promoting the health and wellbeing benefits they bring. [ + ]

Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) has announced the winners of the 2017 Green Gown Awards Australasia — an awards scheme dedicated to recognising excellence in sustainability within the tertiary education sector in Australasia. [ + ]

Planet Ark's National Recycling Week, to be held from 13–19 November, is this year highlighting how consumers and businesses can properly close the recycling loop by purchasing products that contain recycled content. [ + ]

Tower 1 Capital Square, the former site of Emu Brewery and new global headquarters for Woodside Petroleum, has received a 6 Star Green Star Office Design v3 rating from the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) — an outcome that represents world leadership in building design. [ + ]

The 2017 Banksia Sustainability Awards have been presented in Sydney, celebrating some of the most innovative, effective and outstanding contributions to improving Australia's sustainability. [ + ]

7-Eleven and Simply Cups have announced a takeaway cup recycling initiative in an effort to divert up to 70 million takeaway cups from landfill. [ + ]

The Victorian Government and Sustainability Victoria have announced the 10 winners of the 2017 Premier's Sustainability Awards, recognising and celebrating Victorians who are leading the way to a sustainable future. [ + ]

Flexible work arrangements, sexual harassment policies and non-gendered parental leave are amongst the key policies identified in a progress report published by a group of executives from some of Australia's largest consulting firms seeking to address systemic gender equality issues. [ + ]

Water conservation consultancy WaterGroup has announced the launch of its NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) ultrasonic, intelligent water meters. [ + ]

Australia has become one of the first 10 countries to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a major international agreement to reduce the global production and use of highly potent synthetic greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). [ + ]

A new report from RaboDirect finds that Australians waste an average of 14% of their weekly grocery buy, equating to over $1050 per household per year — or a collective $9.6 billion. [ + ]

Deakin University researchers are turning hospital waste into longer-lasting concrete, in a project which is solving two problems at once. [ + ]

The Greenwall Company has been working with a number of universities across Australia to design and install greenwall technology, as part of an attempt to increase concentration levels and the wellbeing of campus communities. [ + ]

The City of Sydney has announced what it claims is the most comprehensive strategy to tackle residential waste in Australia, which will see the City trial separate weekly residential rubbish collections for food waste and textiles as well as introduce weekly e-waste pick-ups. [ + ]

A major waste-to-energy project incorporating Global Water Engineering's (GWE) RAPTOR anaerobic digestion technology has been honoured as a finalist in this year's American Biogas Council Industry Awards. [ + ]