Regeneration of Cardiff Bay area
03 September, 2005Cardiff Council is using the dataTaker DT50 data acquisition system to monitor water table levels in the area surrounding Cardiff Bay marina
Coping with Adelaide's waste
03 August, 2005By the early 1990s it was clear that Adelaide was quickly running out of landfill space. A new waste management facility - one with built-in environmental controls - was needed, and fast
National cigarette butt anti-littering campaign
27 July, 2005The first national 'Butt Free City - Please Butt It, Then Bin It' campaign is asking smokers to help reduce the seven billion littered butts that hit Australian footpaths, gutters and waterways every year.
ACCC gives councils green light on collective tendering
01 July, 2005The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has allowed a group of Sydney councils to collectively tender and contract for the provision of waste manage-ment services.
The nappy waste problem
03 May, 2005Used by approximately 91% of parents, a single disposable nappy can take as long as 500 years to decompose in landfill. Up until now there has been little done to reduce this potentially hazardous waste stream
