Victoria

Guide helps businesses reduce/recycle food waste

A new guide aims to help food businesses to reduce costs by avoiding or recycling more of the 237,000 tonnes of food waste currently going to landfill. Food waste recycling for business guide follows the release of new figures, based on 433 audits in the food retail and hospitality sector, which shows a significant opportunity …

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mike.wheelerSeptember 30, 2021, 9:43 amSeptember 30, 2021

Cleanaway wins contracts with 21 Melbourne councils

Cleanaway has won four-year contracts with 21 of the 26 metropolitan councils in Melbourne that tendered their waste volumes.

mike.wheelerSeptember 1, 2021, 12:14 pmSeptember 2, 2021

News, Professional Services, Victoria

MWRRG’s procurement project changes scope

MWRRG’s recycling collaborative procurement project is shifting scope from securing long-term infrastructure contracts to a short-term service provision.

mike.wheelerAugust 31, 2021, 8:10 amAugust 31, 2021

News, Victoria, Waste & Resource Recovery

Geelong recycling plant earmarked for more jobs

Geelong will soon have the capacity to process an additional 8000 tonnes of plastic every year due to a $3 million joint investment from the Australian and Victorian Governments.
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mike.wheelerAugust 24, 2021, 10:27 amAugust 24, 2021

Circular Economy, New South Wales, News, Victoria, Waste & Resource Recovery

Tip Top ditches millions of plastic tags

Bread manufacturer Tip Top has launched its sustainable bag tags in Victoria and New South Wales. This move will eventually eliminate a 400 million pieces of single-use plastic every year as they roll out across Australia and New Zealand.
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mike.wheelerAugust 3, 2021, 8:58 amAugust 3, 2021

News, Victoria

Victorian EPA portal and waste tracker mobile app now live

The Victorian EPA’s Waste Tracker system is now live and replaces the Waste Transport Certificate system. Users can no longer create electronic waste transport certificates in the old EPA Interaction Portal. Anyone who handles RPW must use Waste Tracker to report and comply with Victoria’s new environmental laws.

mike.wheelerJuly 8, 2021, 9:15 amJuly 8, 2021

Australia, News, Victoria, Waste & Resource Recovery

More carrot less stick to stop asbestos dumping

Experts in asbestos removal are calling for a state or national register or business tax breaks to dispose of hazardous material properly, in order to halt a worsening illegal dumping problem in Victoria.

mike.wheelerJuly 5, 2021, 11:48 amJuly 5, 2021

News, Victoria

MCEE works to eliminate single-use plastics

MCEC’s participation in the RMIT Impact Academy culminated in a final showcase at the end of May, with students presenting their impact-driven solutions to get rid of single-use plastics to industry clients and the Academy cohort.
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mike.wheelerJune 24, 2021, 9:41 amJune 24, 2021

News, Victoria

Grain dumping also biosecurity risk

If you’re one of the thousands of highway drivers who use roadside rest stops you may well have seen piles of grain on the ground left behind from trucks that are either cleaning out trailers or reducing weight.

mike.wheelerJune 15, 2021, 10:34 amJune 15, 2021

News, Victoria

Cleanaway welcomes high court decision

Cleanaway Waste Management has welcomed the decision of the High Court of Australia to dismiss the special leave application that sought to challenge the legal validity of the works approval to extend Cleanaway’s Melbourne Regional Landfill in Ravenhall, Victoria (MRL).

mike.wheelerMay 25, 2021, 8:58 amMay 25, 2021