Advancements in Battery Recycling for Fire Risk Reduction

7 Jul 2024

The use of batteries is increasing throughout our economy to help in the energy transition. Batteries of difference sizes and chemistries are being used in just about every aspect of our lives – in household appliances, toys, portable tools, domestic and...

Overcoming Regulatory Barriers to Growing Markets for Recycled Organics

24 Aug 2023

Recovery of diversion of organic waste materials is gaining significant momentum across the country. The organics recycling sector and composting industry has grown to meet the challenge – with organics recycling increasing from 5.15 million tonnes in 2006/07 to 8.35...

Innovation and the Circular Economy – Glass Recycling and Value-Added Manufacturing

23 Feb 2023

In Australia in 2018/19, it is estimated that 1.16 Mt or 46 kg per person of glass waste was generated, up from 1.13 Mt in 2016-17. About 90% of all glass consumed is used in packaging, such as in food and beverage packaging. Overall recycling rates for glass are at...

Recycled plastics to feature in Melbourne’s tram platforms

20 Dec 2021 | In the Loop

Recycled plastics from kerbside waste will be used to create innovative modular tram stops, making Melbourne’s tram network more sustainable, accessible for people with disabilities and less disruptive to maintain and develop. The Development of Next Generation Tram...

Recycling face masks into roads to tackle COVID-generated waste

2 Sep 2021 | In the Loop

Researchers have shown how disposable face masks could be recycled to make roads, in a circular economy solution to pandemic-generated waste. Their study shows that using the recycled face mask material to make just one kilometre of a two-lane road would use up about...