DUMP award winners for bad packaging announced
03 March, 2009Everyday supermarket items including Coles pre-packed lemons, Kids Care fruit snacks and Dynamo laundry refill packs have been exposed for their use of damaging and useless packaging in Environment Victoria’s 2009 National DUMP Awards.
Container deposit systems will cost consumers more
02 March, 2009Australian Food and Grocery Council Chief Executive Kate Carnell said that it was disappointing that high-profile members of the community were still calling for costly, outdated 1970s solutions to 2009 challenges.
Television and computer monitor recycling plant for Australia
19 January, 2009Australia is set to increase its recycling capacity with the introduction of the television and computer monitor recycling company, CRT Recycling Australia.
Rescuing surplus food
13 January, 2009Melbourne-based food rescue charity FareShare has estimated in a new report that it will save 620 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2008–09 as a result of its waste reduction efforts. The charity turns surplus food donated from businesses, including food wholesalers and catering companies, into healthy meals for people in Melbourne who are hungry and homeless.
Industry organisation launches new structure
16 December, 2008The Australian Battery Recycling Initiative has announced the official structure of its newly incorporated organisation.
Plastic bag ban passed by SA parliament
04 December, 2008The South Australian Parliament has passed legislation to ban plastic bags.
Waste processing park receives gold award from government
27 November, 2008Sydney recycling company WSN Environmental Solutions has been honoured by the NSW government for its waste processing park in Sydney’s south-west, receiving a gold award in the 2008 Premier’s Public Sector Awards.
Automated e-waste recycling plant
19 November, 2008Sims Recycling Solutions has opened what it claims is the first automated e-recycling plant in the Southern Hemisphere.
Case study: E-recycling initiative
18 November, 2008Networking solutions company Netgear has launched a new recycling program in Australia that gives its customers a quick and easy way to dispose of their old networking equipment, free of charge.
Recycling industry welcomes landfill levy
14 November, 2008The recycling and waste management industry said that announcements in the NSW Treasurer’s Mini-Budget would hasten a major increase in recycling in NSW.
Company wins award for bin retention system
12 November, 2008Australian Cosset Industries has won a national environmental award for a product that turns old cash, plastic bags and discarded drink bottles into trashcan holders.
Research shows Australians looking for guidance on global warming
10 November, 2008Research shows ‘recycling’ is Australia’s most widely understood environmental term and is considered the most practical and tangible way for the public to ‘do their bit’.
Revelations on the recycling habits of Australians
10 November, 2008Australians are continuing to do the right thing and recycle at home, achieving residential recovery rates for beverage containers of between 75–85%, similar rates to those achieved through South Australia’s container deposit system.
Call for expressions of interest
06 November, 2008Sustainability Victoria is calling for expressions of interest for projects to develop and implement new collection service models and improved logistics for the recovery of commercial and industrial post-consumer recyclable packaging.
Green group calls for 21st century approach to electrical waste
04 November, 2008Environment Victoria has called on all state and federal environment ministers to stop avoiding the issue of electrical waste and urged them to discuss a new recycling scheme for televisions and fluorescent lights at the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) meeting.
