Dead TVs to be recycled Australia-wide
29 March, 2012The number of ‘dead’ and obsolete televisions and computers dumped on Australian kerbsides is set to drop from July 2012, thanks to the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme.
ETSA Utilities lighting the way on recycling
29 March, 2012ETSA Utilities has been announced as the first electricity distributor in Australia to become a Signatory in the federal government’s FluoroCycle scheme, which aims to increase recycling of mercury-containing street lamps and reduce the amount of mercury entering the environment.
Tyrewise launched in New Zealand
22 March, 2012The Product Stewardship Foundation in New Zealand has been awarded funds to develop an industry-led, end-of-life tyres (ELT) program called Tyrewise. The program will allow for a consistent nationwide approach to the responsible disposal of tyres, removing hidden costs for consumers and ratepayers as well as providing a better outcome for New Zealand’s environment.
Regional NSW installs mobile glass crusher
20 March, 2012A mobile glass crusher has been installed at the Wellington Resource Recovery and Transfer Station. The Komplet MT5000 mobile glass crusher will increase glass recycling rates by processing glass bottles and jars collected through kerbside recycling and drop-off facilities and re-use the recovered crushed glass (RCG) locally in civil construction applications.
Getting it sorted
19 March, 2012The UniSort line of sorting machines developed by RTT Steinert uses a range of detection and separation technologies to automatically sort waste at different points along the recovery and recycling path.
Reverse recycling pays at the Sydney Aquarium
01 March, 2012Sydney Aquarium installed the Envirobank recycling machine in January this year. Similar to a vending machine, customers can deposit an empty plastic bottle, aluminium can or plastic cup into the Envirobank and they will be guaranteed a reward voucher for instant redemptions.
Organic waste from Adelaide Oval gets a new life
29 February, 2012Food scraps and organic waste from on-site food preparation and catering areas at the Adelaide Oval will find a new use as nutrient-rich compost, thanks to a closed system recycling program supported by BASF.
Backhus DC 50 compact composting unit
01 February, 2012The Backhus DC 50 compact composting unit is a dynamic containerised in-vessel composting facility. Waste can be processed at the point of generation, making the computer-controlled unit suitable for food industry applications such as composting grease trap wastes and food wastes from grocery stores, cafeterias and hotels; green and yard waste. Other applications include composting: industrial sludges, municipal solid waste (MSW), manure, biosolids and sewage sludge.
Guide for the re-use of construction and demolition waste
12 January, 2012The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has released a guide to assist in the development of effective markets for the re-use of construction and demolition waste. The ‘Construction and Demolition Waste Guide - recycling and re-use across the supply chain’ draws on Australian case studies to highlight the best practice waste management and resource recovery in the construction and demolition sector and to address a common perception that the re-use of this type of waste is too difficult.
E-waste partnership creates jobs
10 January, 2012A partnership between Social Firms Australia (SoFA) and e-waste recycling company MRI allows companies and local government to meet the new requirements of the National Waste Policy while being socially responsible.
Gas recycling technology
09 December, 2011ABB has developed a technology for the comprehensive recycling of contaminated SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) gas, based on an energy-efficient cryogenic process.The new technology, developed by an Australian team at ABB’s Moorebank, NSW, facility, will be implemented at a dedicated SF6 gas recycling centre at Moorebank. Australia will be the first country in a global rollout of this new technology.
Pioneers within WEEE recycling
07 December, 2011In a scrap yard in Switzerland, right in the middle of the beautiful Alps, you can find one of Eldan Recycling’s customers - Cablofer Recycling SA. The company is a scrap-metal processor dealing with ferrous and non-ferrous scrap on a 40,000 m2 plot which has been collected from companies as well as from the general public.
Recycling of disposable nappies now a reality
23 November, 2011New technology is enabling the recycling of disposable nappies, female hygiene products and adult incontinence aids.
Hilton recycling soap to help developing countries
23 November, 2011 byHilton Worldwide has announced a partnership with the Global Soap Project, a non-profit organisation that recovers and recycles soap from hotels that would otherwise end up in landfills. The Global Soap Project sorts, reprocesses and remoulds used soap into new bars and distributes them to vulnerable populations in developing countries that are at risk of sanitation and hygiene-related disease. In its first year of the partnership, Hilton Worldwide expects this investment to result in the donation of more than one million new 110 g bars of soap to people in need.
Powering ahead with recycling
23 November, 2011Funded by the Packaging Stewardship Forum (PSF) of the Australian Food and Grocery Council and Brisbane Powerhouse, 20 new waste and recycling bins have been installed at the Brisbane Powerhouse venue.
