Lisa Korycki, Author at Inside Waste

Circular Economy, Clothing, Features, Reuse

The case for reuse instead of recycling

The word ‘recycling’ has been synonymous with ‘sustainability’ for decades but recycling is only what should happen when a product reaches the end of its useable life. A webinar is being held to discuss the issue of reuse. Read More

Lisa KoryckiJuly 4, 2024, 10:24 amJuly 4, 2024

News, Online Subscription

Winners of ENVIRO Awards announced

The winners of the inaugural 2024 ENVIRO Awards for innovation, excellence, and leadership in the circular economy have been announced. “As part of WMRR’s national circular economy conference,
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Lisa KoryckiJuly 4, 2024, 10:03 amJuly 4, 2024

Disposal, Latest News, Recycing/reusing, Tyres

$225K in fines for improper tyre storage

Western Sydney company BSV Tyre Recycling Australia Pty Ltd (BSV) has been ordered to pay more than $160,000 for 10 offences relating to the improper storage of waste tyres by the Land and Environment Court. Read More

Lisa KoryckiJuly 4, 2024, 9:47 amJuly 4, 2024

e-waste, Opinion

Coming full Sircel

Sircel is a green-technology company whose primary focus is the eradication of electronic waste from landfill. Driven by the need to do its part in creating a circular economy, the company is run by Anthony Karam. A former corporate lawyer, Karam started on this journey in 2017 after experiencing the enormous e-waste dumps of West Africa. That, coupled with his past experience, lit a fire within him to find a better way of dealing with e-waste. Read More

Lisa KoryckiJuly 4, 2024, 9:12 amJuly 4, 2024

Features

Veolia issued improvement notices

EPA Victoria is maintaining its oversight of the Veolia Recycling and Recovery facility in Taylors Rd, Dandenong South issuing three improvement notices. Read More

Lisa KoryckiJuly 2, 2024, 11:09 amJuly 2, 2024

Equipment, Excavator, News

JCB Excavator works hard and is easy to use

When Skips and Scrap director Grady Kamper needed to expand his business, he decided one item of machinery that would help him realise that ambition was an excavator. But not just any excavator. He chose the JCB JZ140. Why? Read More

Lisa KoryckiJuly 2, 2024, 9:44 amJuly 2, 2024

Geta Skip fined $60k over abandoned waste

Geta Skip and a director of the skip bin waste removal business have been fined a total of $60,000 in Parramatta Local Court for leaving 6,000 cubic metres of waste on a Smithfield premises after the
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Lisa KoryckiJuly 2, 2024, 9:20 amJuly 2, 2024

Batteries, Batteries, Events, Hazardous waste, Latest News, VWMA

Battery fire webinar

Battery fires continue to plague the waste and resource recovery industry. The Victorian Waste Management Association of Victoria (VWMA) will hold a webinar for local councils, transport, waste and resource
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Lisa KoryckiMay 23, 2024, 10:16 amMay 23, 2024

Circular Economy, Councils, Latest News, News, Online Subscription, Research & Reports, Victoria

RMIT and council trial world-first coffee concrete footpath

Freshly brewed coffee concrete may be coming to a street near you after RMIT University teamed up with Macedon Ranges Shire Council to conduct a world-first coffee concrete footpath trial. Several other
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Lisa KoryckiMay 23, 2024, 9:41 amMay 23, 2024

WMRR announces 2024-26 board

Incumbent director Isabel Axiö is the new National Vice President of the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR).
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Lisa KoryckiMay 23, 2024, 8:02 amMay 23, 2024