One year on from the inaugural National Plastics Summit in Canberra, the Australian Government has this month released its first National Plastics Plan, which sets a new standard for how we as a country will tackle the plastics issue.
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Waste industry guide to insurance renewals
Mark Bramley, area director at Gallagher, held a recent workshop held in NSW facilitated by Tony Khoury, Executive Director, WCRA NSW.
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What circular economy?
“No road should get made without it being bound by recyclable plastic, no footpath gets made without it being made from rubble and recyclable plastics, and that should be the process to design right from the outset – rather than stockpiling, burning, burying, or dumping plastic in landfills, where it can leach out in the ocean, which is what is happening now.”
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Bin harmonisation given the green light
Environment Ministers have agreed to a suite of actions to meet National Waste Policy Action Plan targets, included nationally consistent municipal waste collections.
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Second chance for waste specialists
It’s not often that you get second chances in life, so when Ben Harris and Suzanne Magro got the opportunity to re-boot their waste collection service last year in South Australia, they didn’t think twice – and Adelaide Liquid Waste Solutions was born.
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Study reinforces how bad Aussies are at recycling
Research into Australians’ recycling behaviours and attitudes shows only 25 per cent of us are separating waste correctly.
Online forum on best practice models for plastic waste avoidance, reuse and recycling
Following last year’s waste educators-driven online forum on ‘educating to avoid, repair and reuse’, WMRR is bringing part two of the national series to the industry, this time hosted by the WMRR WA Waste Educators working group.
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Organic waste should not get preference in landfills
Sam Bateman has been a champion of the waste industry for as long as I have been in the sector (over 30 years). In that time, including in his latest article in Inside Waste, he has argued strenuously for the role of landfill in an integrated waste management system.
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Nominations open for waste awards
Nominations are open for the Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards, which will culminate in an event held on the 27th October in Melbourne.
Paper looks at risks of investing in plastics
Shareholder representative As You Sow today released a report “Plastics: The Last Straw for Big Oil?”, addressing the financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks of over investment in petrochemical infrastructure.
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