Engineering students encourage public to report environmental pollution
31 July, 2013A smartphone app and website which the public can use to report incidents of environmental pollution have been developed by students at Victoria University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science.
National Bulk Equipment ProductSaver product recovery system for packaged liquids and flow-resistant wet contents
30 July, 2013 | Supplied by: Mercer TechnologiesThe National Bulk Equipment ProductSaver line of product recovery systems is designed to provide automated, controlled removal of free-flowing liquids or flow-resistant wet contents from their packaging.
Ramky Environment enters binding agreement to acquire Enviropacific Services
25 July, 2013 | Supplied by: Enviropacific Services Pty LtdEnviropacific Services has announced that its shareholders have signed a binding share sale agreement for the sale of Enviropacific to Ramky Environment Pty Limited (REPL), a subsidiary of Ramky International Singapore Pty Limited (RISPL).
Mobile phone runs on urine power
17 July, 2013 by Dr Ioannis IeropoulosScientists working at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, which is a collaboration between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the University of Bristol, have developed a novel way of charging mobile phones using urine as the power source to generate electricity.
Recycling tyres to recover oil and steel
16 July, 2013Green Distillation Technologies is commercialising an innovative process to resolve the long-standing, global environmental problem of tyre disposal, to produce oil and recover steel and carbon from end-of-life tyres. The company plans to start operations in October at its Warren NSW pilot plant and market an IPO next year to fund seven additional plants in Australia in its first five years.
Developments in PET and bioplastics
15 July, 2013Take a PET bottle, fill it with sand and put the lid on. Do this with lots more bottles, then stack them up and join them together with mud and cement. What sounds like a fun game for the children’s sandpit is, in fact, a new idea in recycling. The bottles are being used to build houses in an outstanding and ambitious project in Nigeria.
SITA secures Rio Tinto waste management contract
12 July, 2013 | Supplied by: SUEZSITA Australia (SITA) has recently been selected as the preferred tenderer to provide total waste management services to Rio Tinto’s Bowen Basin mining operations.
Unitywater lightens the load on landfill
10 July, 2013 | Supplied by: UnitywaterUnitywater will divert 200 tonnes of waste away from landfill, thanks to a recycling program that will see almost 90% of the old Cooroy Sewage Treatment Plant re-used.
BASF closes the loop on composting showcase at Chinaplas 2013
04 July, 2013BASF and Guangzhou Joraform Environmental have announced that compost produced from a joint composting project at Chinaplas has come full circle and will be used to improve soil quality at the Guangzhou Nansha District Dagang Institute of Agricultural Sciences farm in Guangzhou.
Forum discusses the future of e-waste
04 July, 2013The ‘E-Waste or E-Resource?’ future forum took place on 28 June. Hosted by the ANZRP, the forum discussed the federal product stewardship legislation and whether it is enabling resource efficiency and the emerging circular economy.
How can packaging reduce food waste?
26 June, 2013Australian research that shows packaging has a vital role to play within the supply chain in minimising food waste has been released.
C&I waste and recycling report published
18 June, 2013The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities today released ‘A study into commercial and industrial (C&I) waste and recycling in Australia by industry division’.
Schischek explosion-proof product range
14 June, 2013 | Supplied by: Rotork AustraliaRotork Australia has been appointed the sole supplier for the complete range of Schischek explosion-proof products for Australia and New Zealand.
Waste to wages
13 June, 2013Community recycling enterprises have the potential to create thousands of new jobs while at the same time reducing waste to landfill. A documentary titled ‘Waste to Wages’ demonstrates how these enterprises are dealing with local waste problems in a sustainable way.
Creating high-value products from leftovers
13 June, 2013 by Marcia WoodFor around every 4 L of olive oil that’s pressed from the ripe fruit, about 17 kg of olive skins, pulp and pits are left behind. Known as pomace, these leftovers typically have low-value uses. But US Department of Agriculture (USDA) agricultural engineer Rebecca R Milczarek and her colleagues are working with olive growers and olive-oil processors in California - where most of the US’s commercial olives are grown - to find new, environmentally friendly and profitable uses for pomace.
