landfill

Businesses receive funding to help reduce landfill waste

The Victorian Government is driving the state’s transition to a circular economy by diverting landfill waste and recycling it into new products – creating new jobs and combatting climate change. Read More

mike.wheelerFebruary 12, 2024, 3:45 pmFebruary 12, 2024

Circular Economy, Gas capture, Industry News, Landfills, Latest News, Queensland, Renewable energy

Queensland councils look into landfill biogas extraction

Queensland council leaders looked into landfill biogas extraction at an open day at the Toowoomba Waste Management Centre. Read More

mike.wheelerSeptember 12, 2023, 10:35 amSeptember 12, 2023

Features

Queensland government says ‘no’ to Wanless landfill

The Queensland Government has refused part of the Ministerial Call In for the development application for the Wanless Recycling Park in Ipswich. Read More

mike.wheelerJune 21, 2023, 11:11 amJune 22, 2023

Industry News, Opinion

Contamination won’t get truck rejected from MRF

I keep reading what, are in my opinion, “waste myths” on-line and in the popular press. Read More

Mike RitchieFebruary 6, 2023, 8:57 amFebruary 9, 2023

Latest News, Victoria, Waste & Resource Recovery

EPA Vic cancels Barro Group licence to operate landfill

EPA Victoria has cancelled Barro Group’s licence to operate its Sunshine Landfill site at Kealba.
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Lisa KoryckiJanuary 12, 2023, 11:04 amJanuary 12, 2023

Professional Services

Why odour management is a key priority for landfills

How are landfills benefiting from incorporating community engagement into their odour management strategies? Read More

mike.wheelerNovember 8, 2022, 7:58 amNovember 8, 2022

Industry News, New South Wales, News, Opinion

National Waste Policy Action Plan “poorly enacted”

The Auditor General’s Report on the effectiveness of the National Waste Policy Action Plan has found that it sets the right targets but is poorly enacted at all levels of government. Read More

Mike RitchieOctober 5, 2022, 9:42 amNovember 1, 2022

Features

Give shoes new life during plastic-free July

Plastic Free July is here and Treadlightly is calling on Australians to reduce their plastic waste by keeping their unwanted shoes out of landfill and recycling them. Read More

mike.wheelerJune 30, 2022, 11:12 amJune 30, 2022

Opinion

Uniforms destined to fuel use not landfill

A collaboration between Veolia, the Department of Defence and Ventia, means that military uniforms that have reached their use by date will no longer be destined for landfill but will instead be used as an alternate fuel source. Read More

mike.wheelerJune 30, 2022, 9:26 amJune 30, 2022

Grants help prepare Tasmania for landfill levy

The government of Tasmania recently passed new legislation – The Waste and Resource Recovery Bill 2021 – that establishes a state-wide levy that will encourage the diversion of materials from landfill and drive investment in alternatives to landfill, so more materials will be recovered from waste streams and turned into new and valuable products. Read More

Mike RitchieApril 7, 2022, 10:41 amApril 7, 2022