Western Australians can now have their say on the rollout of banning electrical and electronic waste disposal to landfill from 2024. E-waste encompasses items with a plug, battery or cord that are no longer working or wanted. The ban would include televisions, mobile phones, computers, screens, data storage, white goods, batteries, medical devices, lighting and [...]
Equipment finance and leasing firm Quadrent has launched Australia’s first ever equipment ‘Green Lease’ product to help businesses reduce the amount of e-waste they are producing. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest Waste Account, Australia disposes of 539,000 tonnes of e-waste in a year. The new financial product aims to reduce these figures [...]
The rainfall model that engineers use to help them design critical infrastructure such as large dams and nuclear power plants needs to be updated to take into account climate change. That is the conclusion of a study paper to published in Water Resources Research, which calculates that the ‘Probable Maximum Precipitation’ estimates for 546 large [...]
Clean Planet Energy has announced a new joint venture with private equity firm Crossroads Real Estate to fund Clean Planet Energy’s flagship ecoPlant currently under construction in Teesside, North East England. This will be the first of 10 new ecoPlants that Crossroads Real Estate and Clean Planet Energy are jointly seeking to build and operate [...]
Australia’s first laser fusion energy company HB11 Energy has been awarded a $20 million project as part of Deakin University’s plans to build “the largest recycling and clean energy advanced manufacturing ecosystem in Australia”. The $20 million project comprises a ~$6 million grant from the $50 million granted to Deakin University through the Federal Government’s [...]
Western Australia banned the sale or supply of single-use plastic cold beverage cups. The ban, which came into force on October 1, completes the first stage of Western Australia’s Plan for Plastics, with the State leading the nation. The bans will save 430 million single-use plastics from landfill or litter in WA each year, with [...]
A recent report from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has found that emerging data collection technologies can help manage water challenges in real-time and mitigate the worst effects of drought, flood, and shifting water patterns. Australia’s inland water is being impacted by climate change. The 2022 State of the Environment [...]
Over the past five years, Renault Trucks has invested in the circular economy, applying a three-pronged approach that consists in regenerating, repurposing and recycling used trucks. Renault Trucks is conducting numerous initiatives to extend the lifetime of the vehicles it sells. For example, used trucks are remanufactured according to strict industrial processes at the [...]
Extracta, an Australian manufacturer will shortly start utilising agricultural waste like sugarcane husks, grape marc (skins and seeds) and orange peel (after juicing) to manufacture products, stopping the waste from going to landfill. Rod Lewis, Extracta’s CEO says that his company is turning agricultural waste into high-quality ingredients for the nutraceutical, food and cosmetic industries. [...]
A new way of using compost could boost global crop production and deliver huge benefits to the planet, according to a study co-led by The University of Queensland. Professor Susanne Schmidt from UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences said adopting a Precision Compost Strategy (PCS) in large-scale agriculture could improve crop yield, soil health [...]
