An Australian business accelerator is on the hunt for solutions to the growing global waste problem that can be quickly brought to market. Announced during the United Nations Regional 3R Forum in Adelaide, South Australia, one of Australia's leading commercialisation groups, Innovyz, is looking for ideas, inventions and products that can be quickly developed into [...]
Five of the largest companies in the Australian waste management and recycling sector have agreed to establish the National Waste & Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC). The NWRIC will embrace the views of companies with direct investments in the waste management, recycling and resource recovery industry. Waste management is an essential service and the sector contributes [...]
A 12-month trial is underway using hybrid solar-diesel power to deliver drinking water from a borefield to Broome in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. WA State Water Minister, Mia Davies, said the trial was a Western Australian-first and, if successful, the innovative system could lead to more water around the state being delivered using clean solar [...]
New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory have the most supportive policies for deploying energy from waste and bioenergy projects, according to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The corporation’s Bioenergy Sector lead, Henry Anning, said CEFC research had identified the states as having policy settings and levies that created [...]
The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has developed a new technology that increases the storage capacity of rechargeable batteries by 50 per cent. With this technology, batteries in smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices will last longer, the costs of sustainable energy storage will decrease and the range of electric vehicles (EVs) can [...]
The Queensland Government is assessing public comment on a proposed $500 million wind farm at Coopers Gap near Kingaroy, about 200 kilometres north west of Brisbane. Consultation on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the project closed on 7 November. The public was invited to make a submission on whether the draft EIS for [...]
A South Australian company specialising in turning wine industry waste into value add products is helping to drive Australia’s booming craft spirits sector. Tarac Technologies, headquartered in South Australia’s iconic Barossa Valley region, is Australia’s largest producer of high quality grape spirit, which it sells back to the wine industry or to beverage producers around [...]
Twelve new large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) plants are set to be constructed across Australia, tripling the amount of energy produced from big solar. The 12 projects have been chosen as part of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) multi-million dollar large-scale solar round. They are expected to unlock almost $1 billion of commercial investment and [...]
UK local council attempts to restrict access to their civic amenity sites to permit-holding local residents will end up costing them more than they are likely to save, warned UK-based BusinessWaste.co.uk The national waste management company says that policies signed to keep non-permit holders away from their sites are likely to succeed spectacularly, to the [...]
A liquid that greatly improves the ability of water to douse a blaze is helping firefighters battle wild fires in North America and Europe. Developed in South Australia by BioCentral Laboratories, BlazeTamer380 has been used this fire season in the air and on the ground in five states in the US while testing of the [...]
