Backhus DC 50 compact composting unit
01 February, 2012The Backhus DC 50 compact composting unit is a dynamic containerised in-vessel composting facility. Waste can be processed at the point of generation, making the computer-controlled unit suitable for food industry applications such as composting grease trap wastes and food wastes from grocery stores, cafeterias and hotels; green and yard waste. Other applications include composting: industrial sludges, municipal solid waste (MSW), manure, biosolids and sewage sludge.
Guide for the re-use of construction and demolition waste
12 January, 2012The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has released a guide to assist in the development of effective markets for the re-use of construction and demolition waste. The ‘Construction and Demolition Waste Guide - recycling and re-use across the supply chain’ draws on Australian case studies to highlight the best practice waste management and resource recovery in the construction and demolition sector and to address a common perception that the re-use of this type of waste is too difficult.
E-waste partnership creates jobs
10 January, 2012A partnership between Social Firms Australia (SoFA) and e-waste recycling company MRI allows companies and local government to meet the new requirements of the National Waste Policy while being socially responsible.
Gas recycling technology
09 December, 2011ABB has developed a technology for the comprehensive recycling of contaminated SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) gas, based on an energy-efficient cryogenic process.The new technology, developed by an Australian team at ABB’s Moorebank, NSW, facility, will be implemented at a dedicated SF6 gas recycling centre at Moorebank. Australia will be the first country in a global rollout of this new technology.
Pioneers within WEEE recycling
07 December, 2011In a scrap yard in Switzerland, right in the middle of the beautiful Alps, you can find one of Eldan Recycling’s customers - Cablofer Recycling SA. The company is a scrap-metal processor dealing with ferrous and non-ferrous scrap on a 40,000 m2 plot which has been collected from companies as well as from the general public.
Recycling of disposable nappies now a reality
23 November, 2011New technology is enabling the recycling of disposable nappies, female hygiene products and adult incontinence aids.
Hilton recycling soap to help developing countries
23 November, 2011 byHilton Worldwide has announced a partnership with the Global Soap Project, a non-profit organisation that recovers and recycles soap from hotels that would otherwise end up in landfills. The Global Soap Project sorts, reprocesses and remoulds used soap into new bars and distributes them to vulnerable populations in developing countries that are at risk of sanitation and hygiene-related disease. In its first year of the partnership, Hilton Worldwide expects this investment to result in the donation of more than one million new 110 g bars of soap to people in need.
Powering ahead with recycling
23 November, 2011Funded by the Packaging Stewardship Forum (PSF) of the Australian Food and Grocery Council and Brisbane Powerhouse, 20 new waste and recycling bins have been installed at the Brisbane Powerhouse venue.
Design award for biodegradeable children's stool
22 November, 2011A children's stool made from wheat starch, water, vinegar, glycerol, pea straw and grass seeds has won a design discovery award.
Biological brands join recycling program
18 November, 2011GROLogic and Roots Shoots and Fruits are the latest brands to join the Agrecovery Container Recycling program in New Zealand.
New playful App encourages recycling
15 November, 2011The Bin It! App aims to encourage 'players' to toss plastic packaging into virtual - and real world - recycling bins.
‘Fuel’ from paint sludge
08 November, 2011In an attempt to halve the amount of paint sludge disposed of in landfill, Ford Australia is using the sludge as an alternative source of fuel in the cement-making process.
Leichhardt residents’ recycling skills acknowledged
02 November, 2011The good recycling skills of residents in Leichhardt have been identified in a recent LGA audit of recycling bins.
Crazy for coconuts
26 October, 2011Ford and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company are researching the use of coconut fibre reinforcement for moulded plastic parts to reduce the use of petroleum and make the parts lighter and more natural looking.
