The New Zealand Green’s Waste Minimisation (Solids) Bill is through to the Select Committee. The local government and Environment Select Committee have called for submissions on the bill with a closing date of 1 September.

Thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste are being harnessed to manufacture Australian cement in an initiative to clean up the image of one of the world’s biggest polluting industries.

The savewater! awards are calling for entrants for the 2006 program, which recognises and awards outstanding achievement in water conservation.

Renewable energy producer Axiom Energy Ltd is building a 150 million litre a year biodiesel facility at the Geelong Port.

The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Committee for consumer policy, COPOLCO, is recommending that ISO raise awareness of the benefits of its environmental labelling standards.

How much would it cost to drive a family sedan around mainland Australia? Ford Australia believes it can be done for about $1000 in fuel costs.

Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and some other greenhouse gases displayed near record growth rates last year. But there was also good news about the state of the atmosphere in 2005.

Seven cities are creating a Butt Free Australia by reducing cigarette butt littering in their CBDs by an average of almost 18%.

Should Australia have a nuclear industry? According to Prime Minister John Howard, this is a debate we must have. Cabinet has now signed off on his proposal to investigate the economic, environmental and health and safety aspects of an expanded nuclear industry. The report is due back to Howard by the end of the year.

Some of the world's best-known conservation biologists are joining forces to establish a $6.9 million research centre to address Australia's environmental challenges.

The 2006 Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia (SEGRA) Conference will be conducted in Launceston, Northern Tasmania from 28-30 August 2006.

Less than four months after signing a $2 million, 2 year contract to demonstrate flexile solar panels based on Dye Solar Cell technology to provide portable and sustainable energy, the project team has met the first major contract milestone.

Sanitaire a global wastewater treatment company has released a brochure for their Membrane Disc Diffusers.

The impacts of climate change will be felt globally over the next century, according to the August 2003 issue of Austral Ecology – for the Ecological Society of Australia, published by Blackwell Publishing.

HaulMaster Equipment, Melbourne based manufacturers of Hook Lift and Mini Skip Bin Systems has been purchased by Lyco Innovations and will trade as HaulMaster by Lyco.