FOCUS enviro has supplied and installed two EDGE Innovate machines for Australian recycling specialist Concrush, supporting the company’s continued growth and commitment to efficient, sustainable waste processing. The installation includes the EDGE Slayer XL, a high-torque twin shaft shredder, and the EDGE TRT622 track trommel, one of the largest track-mounted trommels available in the Australian market.
The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR) has called on the next government of South Australia to commit to a stronger policy framework that accelerates the circular economy and helps deliver a net-zero future for the state. In a new election priorities statement, the national peak body for Australia’s $21 billion waste …
EPA Victoria has been on an inspection blitz that has resulted in 10 companies being ordered to take immediate action to fix and strengthen odour controls or face serious enforcement action. EPA Victoria’s inspection blitz in Melbourne’s west has resulted in the regulator ordering 10 companies to take immediate action to fix and strengthen …
Australia lacks a nationally agreed framework to determine when product stewardship or extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes should be introduced, according to the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR). The organisation has proposed a formal Trigger Framework designed to guide when intervention is justified and how stewardship schemes should be developed. ACOR argues that, in the …
The challenge that sits at the centre of Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) requirements and commercial waste processing is trying to get a ‘clean’ outcome when separating organics from packaging. Waste Initiative’s managing director Dwayne Smith, and solutions partner Brenton Sargeant, believe the company has a state-of-the-art solution to this issue with the Mavitec depackaging unit. This will be important in the coming 12 months as NSW rolls out its FOGO mandates that all councils and businesses will have to obey.
EPA Victoria has lost patience with companies that fail to show how they are reducing packaging waste, warning they risk penalties if they don’t comply with their obligations. EPA Victoria has lost patience with companies that fail to show how they are reducing packaging waste, warning they risk significant penalties if they don’t comply …
Plastic pipes are one of the quiet achievers of modern infrastructure. Hidden underground or behind walls, they deliver drinking water, manage wastewater, enable energy projects and support mining and industry, often for more than a century. As sustainability expectations increase, attention is turning to how these engineered products can participate in a truly circular economy. According to the Plastics Industry Pipe Association of Australia (PIPA), recycling plastic pipes is not only possible, it is already happening.
REMONDIS Australia has acquired Brisbane-based VetraHealth. The acquisition is important given REMONDIS’s inroads to the sector nationally, drawing on expertise from its existing local and global operations. VetraHealth is an established family-run business providing medical, clinical and related waste services, and sanitary waste management to customers across health, veterinary, commercial and industrial markets in South …
As a child, Amy Bartkowski imagined a future working with animals. She was, by her own admission, a big fan of Bindi the Jungle Girl and assumed she would grow up to become a vet. Underneath that ambition sat a broader pull towards the environment, one that would shape her studies and, eventually, her career. …
Tumut Waste Pty Ltd has been ordered to pay $520,000 in fines and legal costs by the Land and Environment Court, following prosecution by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for emitting offensive odours at the Bellettes Landfill in Gilmore. Between late June and September 2023, the EPA received more than 200 community complaints about …