Waste > Recycling/re-using

Source Separation Systems National Park recycling stations

01 May, 2014

The National Park range of public recycling stations has been specifically designed to provide users with the flexibility to design their own bins. The final design is completely customised, yet features best-practice waste diversion and high-quality manufacturing.


New facility to turn Pilbara's mining waste into recyclables

08 April, 2014

Transpacific has begun earthworks at a new $17 million recycling and waste management facility in Western Australia.


Wealth from Waste research collaboration launched

02 April, 2014

A new research collaboration, led by the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), aims to determine the value of above-ground resources - the metals contained in discarded goods.


Recyclable plastic packaging to save one million eggs per year

02 April, 2014

Recyclable plastic packaging that will save more than a million eggs from going to waste each year has been successfully trialled by UK supermarket Tesco.


Compost-A-Pak Shopping Bags

01 April, 2014

Compost-A-Pak Shopping Bags are made of third-grade, non-eating corn sourced from international regions with high rainfall to minimise irrigation. The shopping bags are 100% Australian certified compostable, so users can be confident they will break down when exposed to composting environments, leaving no harmful residue.


End of the road for landfill and incinerated plastics?

23 March, 2014

The large-scale incineration or dumping of plastic films in landfills could soon be a thing of the past as new technologies seek to convert plastics into fuels and other useful products.


National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme 2012-2013 results

10 March, 2014

The Department of the Environment has released a report on the outcomes of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme from 2012-13.


Gaining value from avocado waste using innovative drying process

11 February, 2014

Waikato Innovation Park in New Zealand has received funding from the Bio-Resource Processing Alliance (BPA) to help it turn 'waste into wealth' and scale up commercial production of avocado powder.


TechCollect's top 10 tips for recycling e-waste

11 February, 2014

Now the retail frenzy of Christmas and the January sales is over for another year, e-waste recycling service TechCollect is reminding people to think carefully about what they do next with the old computers, printers and TVs they replaced or upgraded.


TerraCycle to take on Australia's unrecyclables

11 February, 2014

Global recycling company TerraCycle, which currently operates in 23 countries including the US, Canada, the UK and New Zealand, has officially launched in Australia.


Invotec Group to recover metals from crab shells

31 January, 2014

European PCB manufacturer Invotec Group will be participating in the Sustainable Treatment Of Waste Using Recycled Chitosans (STOWURC) project, which has been set up under the auspices of the UK's Technology Strategy Board.


New Zealand's first recycled PET packaging plant opened

31 January, 2014

Flight Plastics' new plastic packaging plant was this week opened by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. It is the country's first plastic packaging plant to manufacture food-grade PET packaging from recycled PET (RPET) flake.


Transpacific opens Riverland Resource Recovery Facility

24 January, 2014

Waste management company Transpacific has opened its Riverland Resource Recovery Facility. As noted by Nick Clark, this is "the first large-scale recycling facility in this district with the capacity to manage and process general waste, recyclables, commercial and industrial waste, and construction and demolition waste from the local area".


Creating art with e-waste

24 January, 2014

American artist Chris Jordan, well known for his works depicting mass consumption and waste, is calling on Australians to help him create a large-scale artwork by handing in their old mobile phones.


TechCollect to focus on business e-waste in 2014

23 January, 2014

Not-for-profit e-waste collection and recycling service TechCollect will this year focus on collecting the large volumes of computer and IT waste generated by the corporate world.


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