A co-founder of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), Atkinson has built her career around the economics of urban sustainability, and was once the global head of sustainability for Lendlease.
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Getting Banksmeadow off the ground
Kanaar, who was responsible for the mobilisation and operation of the Banksmeadow Transfer Terminal development, told delegates that the main challenges were around getting the development operational,
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LEGO just smashed its 100% renewable energy goal
To achieve its target, the LEGO Group invested $1.2 billion over four years in two offshore wind farms, and 20,000
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Legal Eagle: A licence holder’s rights and responsibilities – recent prosecution in the Land and Environment Court
Environment Protection Authority v Steggles Foods Mt Kuring-gai Pty Ltd [2017] NSWLEC 33 In this case, the NSW EPA commenced proceedings against Steggles Foods for contravening the following
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Concerns raised over Central Coast tender
Central Coast Council’s 10-year contract with Remondis will come to an end in January next year and Council told Inside Waste it had invited tenders but was unable to comment on ongoing
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Strength in numbers
Thus, in October that year, Maitland City Council turned to its neighbours – Cessnock and Singleton – to discuss the viability of implementing a regional contract for the collection and processing
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Sustainable Insights: ‘Social licence’ critical to business success
Melbourne is now Australia’s fastest-growing city. With more than 107,000 new residents coming here in 2016, processing and disposing of waste presents environmental and human challenges, but also
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Honeywell launch new cloud-based service for better building efficiency
Honeywell’s new service draws from the collecting power of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, mobile applications and Honeywell’s service engineers. Combining advanced automation and
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Sydney Water conducting research on food waste to energy
To explain the process, food waste will be blended with sewage and the mixture is then converted into methane gas through a process called anaerobic co-digestion. The obtained methane is then used as fuel
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Waste 2017: Achieving better outcomes in new builds
NSW EPA senior project officer Marcelle Psaila, who spoke at the conference, said the regulator has been working to achieve better outcomes in waste management planning, detailing some of its efforts particularly
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