Experienced Office Furniture manufactures its products on-site in the factory, which combines highly trained and experienced staff working with good-quality German machinery. The company’s newest addition is the Weima WL 4 Shredder. [ + ]

Transpacific Industries Group has been granted a patent for its innovative solution to reduce and re-use wastewater taken from grease traps. The company’s Thomastown Grease Trap Treatment Plant in Victoria has adopted a new process and mechanical device to screen, filter and separate wastewater components, allowing it to be treated and re-used. [ + ]

St Mary’s Joinery was established in 1975 and works mainly on commercial building projects to produce quality custom-made joinery for various fit-outs such as offices, hospitals and schools. General Manager Matt White said the company was looking for a solution to manage wood waste in its busy workshop. [ + ]

Infrastructure is critical to Australia’s growing cities and our way of life - what role do scientists play in making sure we get our infrastructure priorities right? This article is a Q&A with one of Parsons Brinckerhoff’s scientists, Barbara Pedersen, as a contribution to National Science Week. [ + ]

Environment Victoria today released Envirotracker, a free online resource which outlines the environment and climate change policies of the three main parties contesting the 2013 federal election - the ALP, the Coalition and the Greens. According to Environment Victoria CEO Kelly O’Shanassy, this is the first time such an analysis has been conducted on environmental policies in Australia. [ + ]

When Orica, provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems, wanted to reduce operating costs and improve efficiencies at its manufacturing plant in Helidon, Queensland, the company went to Atlas Copco to seek advice. [ + ]

Anyone flushing a toilet in urban Australia today does so confident that they’ll never again see the thing they’ve flushed. They probably also think they are causing minimal environmental harm, thanks to our well-designed wastewater treatment plants. But is our lack of concern for sewage pollution well founded? Recents events in northern Tasmania suggest not. [ + ]

Marrickville Council’s successful remediation of Denison Road Playground in Dulwich Hill is complete, meaning the long-awaited community garden can now proceed. [ + ]

Bringing forward the emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Australia will affect landfill operators in two ways: by reducing certainty due to potentially volatile carbon prices and by reducing viability for Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) projects due to the lower value of Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) generated. [ + ]

CSR Roofing has been manufacturing terracotta roof tiles at its Vermont (Melbourne) factory for over seven decades. To replace its ageing compressor, the company chose an Atlas Copco VSD (variable speed drive) machine. [ + ]

Global water technology company Xylem has announced that its Flygt Experior system has reduced energy consumption and operating costs at a municipal water treatment plant in Cagliari, on the island of Sardinia, by 35%. [ + ]

Consumer preference, regulation, emerging valuation models, organisational change agility and the simple pragmatics of closing the product loop influence the development of the ‘green economy’ in the manufacturing sector. This thought piece unpacks some of those drivers as we begin the conversation to better understand what the challenges and opportunities of the green economy mean for Australia. [ + ]

The Environmental Bankers Association of Australia (EBAA) provides information on risk management, sustainable product finance, community responsibility and due diligence to its members. CEO of EBAA Grant Scott provides us with an insight into managing environmental risk from a banking perspective. [ + ]

Having been the Chief Executive of the Australian Water Association (AWA) for just over a month, my steep learning curve on the water industry has become apparent. However, I do have a clear direction for where the association is heading and what we should be doing to assist the Australian water industry. [ + ]

Construction companies that don’t consider the sustainability of assets in the original design phase of projects are missing out on a key piece of information that could significantly reduce costs and increase profits while increasing the sustainability of building practices and the buildings themselves. [ + ]