Australia’s waste export ban initiatives has seen the shipping of whole baled tyres for disposal overseas stopped at the beginning of December.
Dumping costs Vic $89 million a year
Councils in Vic spent $89 million responding to the dumping of illegal waste in 2019/20, with ratepayers left to foot the clean-up bill. Only a handful of these waste crime perpetrators were punished or prosecuted … despite the fact that this is what ratepayers want, according to lobby group Keep Victoria Beautiful.
Hazardous waste grants now open
Businesses (local and international) and local governments can access up to $9.7 million in grants for infrastructure projects that improve the management of Victoria’s hazardous waste.
Gill – education one of the biggest challenges
“Growing up we put everything in a garbage bin, garbos came, and took it away into landfill. Life was simple back then. The only recycling I did was crawl around a few new construction sites as a kid and pick up some coke and Fanta bottles and get my 5 cents or 10 cents and …
Right to repair needs attention to help circular economy
Growing up we moved house a lot. From the ages of 5 to 15 we had moved no less than 10 times, most of it due to my father being a builder – he’d build a house, we’d move in, then he’d sell it, and we’d move on. One of the constants were our appliances. …
Maroochydore system first for Australian CBD
When the Sunshine Coast Council in Queensland decided to make the town of Maroochydore the main centre of the region, it offered up an opportunity to build a CBD with smart technology. One of the key infrastructure outcomes was an underground automated waste collection system, which was developed in Sweden in 1966. According to the …
Odour complaints arise from the community
Odour impacts liveability. It’s the reason for a large number of complaints made to environmental authorities and in communities, with landfills often listed as the top source.
WMRR’s Sloan comes out firing over Victorian CE bill
There has been a flurry of recent activity in Victoria, from the introduction of the Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Bill into Parliament to the release of the waste to energy (WtE) framework. If it’s all about looking busy, then Victoria is certainly winning the race, though questionable, ill-considered and interventionist action is really not what the Victorian waste and resource recovery (WARR) industry needs from government right now, according the Waste Management Resource Recovery Association of Australia WMRR.
How composting facilities complement biogas plants
The circular economy is about designing out waste and pollution and keeping resources in use at their highest value, while regenerating natural systems. There’s a lot of organics to be diverted away from landfills in Australia. Sending organics to landfill releases greenhouse gases, primarily methane which contributes to climate change. The impact of methane on …
SPV company created to deliver waste processing for household waste
Councils in Melbourne’s south east have joined together to form a special purpose vehicle (SPV) called South East Metropolitan Advanced Waste Processing to deliver new infrastructure to process household waste.