The Australian environment industry has entered a new era with the birth of EcoForum, a company with a mission to foster the development of the contamination remediation sector, and the Australian Land & Groundwater Association (AL&GA), an association to cover this previously under-represented sector.

The premium for processing aggregate with glass cullet over conventional mineral aggregate is around $2 per tonne but this extra cost isn’t recognised in most tenders, according to a costs benefit analysis funded by the Glass Packaging Forum.

Primary schools students across Australia are being given the opportunity to participate in an international awareness campaign on sustainable development, with the winning Australian class invited to send two class representatives and their teacher to Paris, all expenses paid, to participate in a special series of events during World Sustainability week in June 2007.

In the most comprehensive water survey ever, Australians are being asked what they would be prepared to do to save water.

Enersave Australia, a joint venture of specialist engineering and manufacturing companies, Enersave Engineering Systems of Malaysia and local Australian company, Steri-flow Filtration Systems, has been established to service the growing Australian market demand for high-quality water and wastewater solutions.

The EnviroAnalysis 2007 Conference will be held for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, and it will take place in Wellington, New Zealand, 7–9 February.

The record-breaking 45,000 km EcoFuel World Tour, which started in Europe in October 2006, will arrive in Sydney on 20 February 2007.

The new funding agreement for CSIRO fails the national interest in the face of national and global challenges such as climate change, according to the CSIRO Staff Association.

A program launched by Nespresso Australia will see a local student travelling to Costa Rica to discover how to create a more sustainable future.

The Insulation Council of Australia & New Zealand (ICANZ) has welcomed the signing of the ‘Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security’.

In the future, farmers could ‘farm’ carbon alongside their conventional commodities, according to Patrice Newell, the NSW Upper House candidate who is supported by the Climate Change Coalition, a newly formed group of Australian citizens concerned about climate change.

Melbourne based environmental technology company Ozmotech has announced the successful pre-commissioning of its latest ThermoFuel plant. The 20 tonne per day waste plastics to diesel system was erected and operated on a site in Laverton, Victoria.

CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM) in Beijing are attempting to combat climate change by working together to monitor the impact in both countries.

Keep Australia Beautiful, in partnership with Veolia Environmental Services, has announced the National Winners of its 2006 Plastic Bag Reduction Awards.

Solar Systems’ mega scale solar power technology has been endorsed under the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6). Solar Systems technology generates electricity with zero greenhouse gas emissions.