Victorian Waste Management Association (VWMA) executive officer Mark Smith shares his opinion on how the federal and state governments could better support the growth and expansion of the waste sector.
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Carbon abatement – the waste sector can do much more
Projections show Australia is very unlikely to meet its current 2030 carbon reduction targets, with recent reports of increasing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from all sectors other than the electricity and agriculture industries.
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A problem shared, is a problem halved: Tackling food waste
When I started OzHarvest 15 years ago, no one outside of the waste industry was talking about food waste. Now everyone is talking about it, but I’m still frustrated at the lack of action to tackle this problem at a national level, let alone halve it!
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Reaping benefits from regional recycling in Cherbourg
Stuart Garbutt, who founded RDT and is a director of engineering with Re.Group, discusses the community benefits of regional recycling.
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MWOO to MSUE – challenging government decisions
The ongoing saga regarding the banning on reuse of mixed waste organic outputs (MWOO) for agricultural purposes in NSW is a reminder that – shock horror – the state government is not perfect, can sometimes make mistakes, and can make decisions that bring serious negative impacts.
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Compost for Carbon: webinars for farmers to cash in on compost
Australian soils are particularly poor, both in terms of general plant nutrients but also organic matter, with undisturbed soils only having about 5 per cent organic matter. With cultivation and farming, organic matter decreases and soils become less fertile. Many areas of farming land, both under pasture and cropping lands have <2 per cent organic matter.
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Robotics’ beneficial role in recycling process explored
When developing countries such as China opened the floodgates to receiving waste recyclables after it became a member of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), there was no need to separate the seven categories of plastics. It was easier and more economical for Australian companies to bundle it up and export it to China for ‘recycling.’ In 2017, Australia’s exports of domestic waste to China amounted to over 600,000 tonnes.
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Business as usual can no longer be the way to go, WMRR CEO says
Leading up to the Meeting of Environment Ministers (MEM) on Friday, the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR) has given its view of changes that need to happen in the waste and resource recovery industry. Read more from WMRR below.
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Consultation has closed on the NSW EPA’s 20-year waste strategy – What now?
It’s been 20 years since the Y2K computer glitch was expected to shut down global computer systems but amounted to nothing – what will we be saying in 20 years about the impact of what has been dubbed the “20YWS”?
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Let’s fix coffee cups so we can start to focus on food waste
If you care about money or care about the environment or care about climate change, ignore coffee cup recycling and instead focus on organics (particularly food), which represent around 50 per cent of all waste to landfill in Australia.
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