The award marks the company’s second consecutive win in the same category, strengthening its sustainability scorecard and aligning itself closer to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The achievement
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China’s ‘National Sword’ strikes recycling blow?
For Australia, a reasonable proportion of the recovered paper and plastic (ABS estimated 40% and 50% respectively in 2011) is exported. China is our main export market for recovered materials with ABS
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Catch Basin Insert improves water quality by 80%
Urban Stormwater Technologies (UST) will be exhibiting its at-source stormwater filtration device, the Catch Basin Insert (CBI), at the Boomerang Alliance’s Beyond Plastic Pollution: Pathways to
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Sydney’s Inner West Council achieves record divestment from fossil fuels
That claim is made in regards to “clean, green investments”. The council has strongly pursued divestment from fossil fuel investments; a strategy which draws from campus culture (universities
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Tempus Energy and Origin to trial flexible energy demand in SA
The partnership was set up through the California Clean Energy Fund’s (CalCEF) Free Electrons initiative, which is a global energy start-up accelerator program that connects the world’s most
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TIC Mattress Recycling putting waste to bed
With those volumes, you’d expect serious efforts towards tackling the problem. But recycling mattress is no easy matter. It’s traditionally been done manually, a procedure that’s labour-intensive
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Inside Waste (Oct): Taking down the barriers
The scheme has undergone a few changes, from new co-regulatory arrangements coming on board as others left, to target changes in 2014 to solve some of the early teething problems, to implementation of
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A booming solar and storage market takes centre stage at All-Energy 2017
This is no surprise really, considering this year’s record solar PV installation rates and a growing interest in battery storage due to falling prices, as well as the recent advancement in smart
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US$7m invested in Redback’s smart hybrid system
The equity investment supports Redback’s development and integration of innovative smart software and hardware technologies to optimise the generation, storage and management of solar energy for
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Waste Opportunist: liability for climate change in the waste management sector
Yet, according to a report from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), the level of climate-related disclosures by ASX200 companies lags behind the rest of their sustainability reporting.
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