Consumers can now demand their used tyres go to genuine recyclers as the Australian Government lends support to Tyre Stewardship Australia’s National Tyre Product Stewardship Scheme (TPSS).
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Inviting consulting firms that provide waste and resource recovery services to participate in the 2021 Inside Waste Consultant Review
Inside Waste encourages your participation as consultants play a key role in strategy, planning and implementation of waste and resource recovery policy, processes and infrastructure this survey will be essential reading for the government, the waste industry and consultants alike. As done in the previous years, phase one involves inviting consultants to tell Inside Waste readers what waste and resource recovery services your firm can provide to them by completing the registration form below:
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Golf clubs/sports shoes new target of waste initiative
The federal Government is taking its investment in product stewardship to close to $15 million and will now see a million sports shoes a year diverted from landfill, 200 tonnes of golf clubs recycled as well as industrial tyres and commercial furniture.
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Contractor sentenced over illegal disposal of asbestos waste
A contractor who was paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars to take asbestos contaminated soil to a lawful landfill has been handed a 12-month term of imprisonment, to be served in the community, for faking waste disposal dockets.
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Companies need to take charge of Product Stewardship
The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence aims for the wide-scale adoption of product and material stewardship principles by businesses to reduce waste generation and create positive environmental and social outcomes.
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KitKat wrapper made from recycled soft plastics
Nestlé, together with other companies, has collaborated to develop Australia’s first soft plastic food wrapper made with recycled content.
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National Food Waste Research Centre makes appointment
The Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre has appointment Francesca Goodman-Smith to the role of TRANSFORM program leader to drive growth in transforming food waste into higher value products. The appointment is effective 6 April 2021. Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre CEO Dr Steven Lapidge said that Francesca was chosen to lead this program after an extensive and competitive international selection process.
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Improved recycling process for carbon fibres
Recycling of composite materials could be up to 70 per cent cheaper and lead to a large reduction in CO2 emissions compared to standard manufacturing.
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Webinar: The road transport of mixed loads of batteries
A webinar on Implementing New Packing Instructions for Road Transport of Mixed Loads of Batteries purpose of this webinar is to be held on March 23, 2021 and April 14, 2021.
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Standardised wheelie-bins coming soon
One of the desired outcomes as a result of the National Plastics Plan was the need for consistency in wheelie-bin waste collection in Australia, according to the federal Environment Minister, Sussan Ley. At the policy launch, Ley said that it was important that all councils and the government work together to make the collection systems standardised.
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