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Safety paramount at BINGO’s Eastern Creek MRF

When it came to new equipment being bought for its latest plant, group capital works manager for BINGO Industries, Jason Goodman, said that safety was the key and not price. When the company recently opened its Eastern Creek Recycling Ecology Park in Western Sydney, a lot of thought went into its layout and how it …

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mike.wheelerAugust 17, 2021, 10:31 amAugust 17, 2021

News, Online Subscription

The ARC of innovation for Brisbane River

Ocean Crusaders Foundation was founded by Ian Thomson with a vision of cleaning up Australia’s waterways to protect its precious marine wildlife and thus the Automatic River Cleaner (ARC) was born. Ian spent three years dreaming of a device to help with this mission by removing more plastic and other debris with less effort. This …

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Dominic SchliebsAugust 17, 2021, 9:22 amAugust 17, 2021

Circular Economy, News

SUEZ Australia buys in to YUME Food

SUEZ Australia & New Zealand has announced it has taken a 20 per cent equity stake in online surplus food marketplace Yume Food as part of an investment in the circular economy.

mike.wheelerAugust 17, 2021, 9:08 amAugust 17, 2021

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Nominations still open for waste awards

Nominations are still open for those wanting to enter the Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards, which will culminate in an event held on the 27^th October in Melbourne.

mike.wheelerAugust 13, 2021, 2:28 pmAugust 13, 2021

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Collaboration urge halving of food waste by 2030

A collaboration between OzHarvest and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) is encouraging national action to halve food waste by 2030 in Australia.

mike.wheelerAugust 12, 2021, 9:35 amSeptember 3, 2021

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Cleanaway expands C&D resource recovery offering

Cleanaway is expanding its presence in the construction and demolition (C&D) waste market as rising waste levies drive investment in resource recovery and diversion of waste from landfill.

mike.wheelerAugust 12, 2021, 9:19 amAugust 12, 2021

New South Wales, News, Waste & Resource Recovery

$600 million for new recycling infrastructure in NSW

The Australian and New South Wales Governments have announced 22 new recycling projects across metropolitan and regional NSW as part of a $600 million national rollout of recycling infrastructure.
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mike.wheelerAugust 10, 2021, 10:28 amAugust 10, 2021

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Bin colour matters – bring on the black bin

A few months ago, with my colleague Dimitris, we wrote an article that bin colour matters. The key point of the article was that green bodied garbage bins (MGB’s) could only contain 35 per cent recycled content HDPE making up the body of the bin. Black bodied bins could contain 80 per cent recycled content.
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Mike RitchieAugust 10, 2021, 9:46 amAugust 12, 2021

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BlockTexx – Australia’s first textile recycling facility

BlockTexx, Australia’s first textile recycling facility, which will divert around 4,000 tonnes of textiles from landfill in its first year, is underway.
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mike.wheelerAugust 10, 2021, 8:58 amAugust 10, 2021

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Biogas plant to be built at Nowra site

Nowra is to become home to a large-scale waste to energy biogas plant. The upcoming project is a joint venture between Innovating Energy, Botres Global and biogas tank manufacturer Schumann Tanks.

mike.wheelerAugust 5, 2021, 11:23 amAugust 5, 2021