Reusing glass and plastic instead of recycling it used to be common — and still is in some parts of the world. Could it be part of the solution to Australia's waste problem?

South Australia led the way in 1977 as the first state in Australia to introduce a container deposit scheme (CDS), allowing residents to exchange bottles for cash at designated recycling sites. Now, ...

Muswellbrook Shire Council in New South Wales has backed a solar module recycling mandate for a 135MW solar PV plant being ...

Australia has long been a pioneer in environmental initiatives, and the latest development in recycling is set to solidify that reputation. With Tasmania’s recent announcement, Australia is poised to ...

The FOGO bins have been rolled out elsewhere in the country with varying degrees of success, but the general feedback is that ...

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Discarded vapes make up a growing part of the mess as e-waste moves into the top 10 types of litter found in Victoria for the ...

Circular Communities Australia has launched Australia’s first purpose-built big bag recycling plant, located in Toowoomba, ...

Upcycle has been awarded a $5 million contract from MinRes to recycle haulage tyres from the Onslow iron project in Western ...

To avoid thousands of solar panels potentially ending up in a council landfill, damaged panels from the proposed 300,000 ...

But the remaining five to 15 per cent of the turbines are made of composite materials for which recycling techniques are in their infancy. As of 2023, a total of 31 wind farms in Australia were ...

Grassroots recyclers are, for the first time, leading a transformative waste management initiative in Fiji and the Pacific. This comes as the Pacific Recycling Foundation co-led a groundbreaking three ...