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Tackling waste together: Matt Kean

NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean lays out the government’s objectives for its 20-year waste strategy.
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December 18, 2019, 3:33 PMSeptember 17, 2020

The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry has made 45 recommendations to advance Victoria’s waste management and resource recovery system.
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December 18, 2019, 11:29 AMSeptember 17, 2020

ACOR CEO Pete Shmigel gives the recent Meeting of Environment Ministers a tick, but a number of areas don’t pass muster.
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November 26, 2019, 1:23 PMNovember 26, 2019

Export bans won’t deliver resource recovery targets unless recycled materials are used in packaging, products and infrastructure.
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November 22, 2019, 11:00 AMSeptember 17, 2020

Product stewardship is an important tool that can drive resource recovery and the circular economy in Australia, writes Rose Read.
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October 30, 2019, 10:44 AMSeptember 17, 2020

A national approach to levy pricing is urgently required, writes Rose Read, CEO of the National Waste and Recycling Industry Council.
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October 11, 2019, 4:19 PMSeptember 17, 2020

The drive to divert organics from landfill has created a supply that remains largely underutilised, writes Angus Johnston.
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October 9, 2019, 8:23 AMSeptember 17, 2020

The COAG ban has the potential to reboot local reprocessing for recovered materials, writes Rose Read, CEO of the NWRIC.
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September 25, 2019, 11:32 AMSeptember 17, 2020

There is a raft of potential changes that can be made to better position plastics, writes Matt Genever, Sustainability Victoria.
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September 11, 2019, 9:58 AMSeptember 11, 2019

Construction recyclers do most of the heavy lifting in Australia, but several stones remain in the gears to drive its future.
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September 3, 2019, 8:43 AMSeptember 6, 2019