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tyre export ban

New laws for waste tyres

As the waste tyre industry faces new export bans and government regulations, Environment Protection Authority Victoria says it’s important to develop industry understanding.
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organics

Road to recovery

Rose Read, chief executive of NWRIC and Peter Olah, National Executive Officer of AORA, explore the challenges and risks of halving organic waste to landfill by 2030.
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Building a culture of repair

The time is Right to Repair, but it requires policies and programs that acknowledge the barriers and opportunities to making it work.
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Is FOGO inevitable?

Inevitable? Probably not everywhere. But I would predict a significant majority of Australia’s 537 councils will go FOGO within a decade, writes Mike Ritchie, MRA Consulting Group Managing Director.
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Waste export ban on mixed plastics: is Australia ready?

For the plastics export ban transition to be successful, we need local, state and federal Governments to work proactively with the resource recovery sector, writes Rose Read, CEO of the National Waste and Recycling Industry Council.
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Organics recyclers are ready and able: AORA

The major obstacles to organics sector growth are external to industry and within the control of one or more tiers of government, writes Peter Olah, AORA National Executive Officer.
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Could pyrolysis save the planet?

There is only one technology that we know of that can reliably suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and sequester it.
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