Cairns Regional Council seeks tenders
Cairns Regional Council is seeking tender submissions from a variety of suitably experienced parties to be part of a Register for the purchase of post-consumer recyclables.
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Businesses receive funding to help reduce landfill waste
The Victorian Government is driving the state’s transition to a circular economy by diverting landfill waste and recycling it into new products – creating new jobs and combatting climate change.
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Cadbury to use recycled plastics for wrapping
Chocolate manufacturer Cadbury has signed a deal with packaging company Amcor, to source 1000 tonnes of post-consumer recycled plastic to wrap its core Cadbury chocolate range, accelerating the company’s ambitions to reduce its virgin plastic needs.
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BINGO’s Eastern Creek facility to have renewable power station
Landfill gas from BINGO Industries’ Eastern Creek Landfill site in western Sydney will generate 4MW per year of renewable energy – enough to power approximately 7,000 homes – by late 2024, after an agreement reached with renewable energy and carbon abatement company, LGI Limited. The two companies have entered into a Landfill Gas Rights agreement for LGI to invest $16.5m to $18.5m over the next 15 months to install additional gas extraction infrastructure at Eastern Creek and install, own and operate a 4MW renewable energy power station on the site.
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Council taking on illegal dumping
Max Yusuf is a Bankstown-Canterbury Council landscape construction worker of 36 years, who is helping out in a joint beautification project with CBCity’s Clean City Dumping Prevention team.
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Bendigo swaps collection frequency of general and organic waste bins
Greater Bendigo’s household kerbside general waste bin collections will change from weekly to fortnightly, and kerbside organic waste bins collection will change from fortnightly to weekly from next Monday, February 5, 2024.
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UK government to charge producers for household collection of e-waste
The UK Government is taking the bold step of collecting e-waste via household pick-ups with the producers of said goods footing the bill. Statistics show an estimated 155,000 tonnes of smaller
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E-waste pioneer Sahajwalla Australia Day Ambassador
One of the world’s most recognised and innovative materials scientists and an engineer and inventor has been announced as this year’s City of Parramatta Australia Day Ambassador. NSW Australian of the Year and UNSW Scientia for 2022 Professor Veena Sahajwalla, is a highly awarded researcher at the forefront of recycling science, who launched the world’s first e-waste microfactory.
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Hundreds of new battery drop off points installed by Coles
Coles installed almost 850 battery recycling drop-off points at its stores around the country.
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The evolution of battery stewardship
“After we launched B-cycle in 2021, we thought, ‘finally, we can catch our breath’, but it was quite the opposite.” Libby Chaplin means this in a good way. The CEO of the Battery Stewardship Council has had a busy year, almost doubling the collection rate to 2400 tonnes of batteries and quadrupling the number of B-cycle Drop off points to 4,195.
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