Council told Inside Waste the contract will ensure national best practices are implemented at the Hogan’s Pocket landfill and Paget Transfer Station, including the bulk waste haulage between the two
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Farewell 2016, hello 2017
As the year comes to a close, Inside Waste turned to the sector’s experts – the heads of the major waste and resource recovery associations in Australia – and asked them to
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Turning challenges into opportunities
Covering some 34,000 square metres, the region has a population of about 16,000 people with East Arnhem Regional Council serving a total of over 9000 people distributed through nine communities. Over the
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Legal Eagle: NSW e-waste definition critically out of date
The lack of definition is only the beginning. There are no regulations in NSW for the disposal, treatment and eventual fate of e-waste, meaning that it is likely to end up at the bottom of a landfill.
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Peninsula sports reserve’s solar-powered pressure sewer trial a success
The Peninsula ECO project involves the connection of more than 16,500 properties on the Mornington Peninsula to an intelligent pressure sewer network that is able to cope with the region’s peak season
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Growing a sustainable biogas sector in Australia
Last month, Australia hosted its first meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Task 37: Energy from Biogas. The group seeks to promote the deployment of anaerobic digestion (AD) technology for
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A step forward for GDT
GDT’s Destructive Distillation process is able to convert end-of-life tyres – a wasted resource and environmental hazard – into high demand valuable raw material by recycling the materials
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A balancing act
When WMAA announced Sloan’s appointment in October, the association said it was a “credit to the waste and resource recovery sector that WMAA has been able to attract such a high calibre senior
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How energy from waste can help the Australian generation mix, emissions intensity and network stability
Whereas previously annual growth in peak demand (the relevant metric for network investment) could be taken as given, consumption which relies on the grid has largely stalled since 2012 due to a perfect
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MAR system trials aim to enhance water security and sustainability
Golder is working with clients in New Zealand’s North and South Islands on the MAR trials, which focuses on conjunctive management of ground and surface water at the catchment-wide scale. Drought
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