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MONTHLY NEWS ROUNDUP
2021
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - June
Here's our waste management news roundup for June 2021
- Bioenergy facility to divert organic waste to clean energy for meat processor
- Plastic waste management market to grow exponentially
- APCO Launches New Compostable Packaging Strategy
- NSW announces $356M investment to tackle plastic waste
- Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
- NSW announces 20-year waste strategy
- SA gets $70 million Visy investment
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - May
Here's our waste management news roundup for May 2021
- $111 million boost for SA recycling industry
- Pandemic mask mountain sets new recycling challenge
- 2021 budget outlines further support for recycling and waste
- Recyclables paving the way for roads
- Environment ministers set priorities for waste policy
- Australia's First Working Solar Panel Recycling Plant Is Up and Running
- More Grocery Store Chains Commit to Zero-Waste Packaging
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - April
Here's our waste management news roundup for April 2021
- Visy announces $35M Laverton glass recycling centre upgrade
- Commissioning underway on automated waste collection system
- VIC innovation hub to promote sustainability research
- Carbonmastic recycled tyre asphalt trialed in Australia
- Turning waste into high-quality film
- $1.3B initiative backs recycling and clean energy
- QLD invests $1M to support local landfill infrastructure
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - March
Here's our waste management news roundup for March 2021
- Victoria to ban single-use plastics by 2023
- Fed Govt releases first National Plastics Plan
- Australia’s first soft plastic food wrapper
- Coles, Nestle to help drive soft plastics recycling in Australia
- Melbourne opens Circular Economy Innovation Grants
- ‘Circular economy’ revolution could be worth $2 trillion
- New funding to increase Victoria’s recycling capacity and capability
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - February
Here's our waste management news roundup for February 2021
- RMF agreement to deliver $174M boost to WA recycling industry
- Tasmania to introduce waste levy from November this year
- Construction begins on Australia’s largest PET recycling plant
- Support for ACT CDS at an all-time high
- VIC Govt invests $20M to support regional four stream recycling
- Circular Threads textile waste initiative receives federal funding
- Coles to divert millions of pieces of soft plastic from landfill
- Approval secured for Australia’s first solar panel recycling facility
- VIC Govt commits $4.4M to expand markets for recycled materials
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - January
Here's our waste management news roundup for January 2021
- Fed Govt announces $4M food waste body
- Soft plastic packaging recycled into sustainable concrete
- Recycling projects awarded $14.9M in latest CRC-P round
- NSW commits $4.7M to boost FOGO recycling
- First funding round announced under $46M VIC RMF agreement
- Federal and SA Governments sign $30M RMF agreement
- $35M funding round opens under NSW RMF agreement
2020
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - December
Here's our waste management news roundup for December 2020
- First stage of ACT single-use plastics ban to commence July 2021
- Round two of Manufacturing Modernisation Fund open
- Senate passes Recycling and Waste Reduction Act
- MWRRG releases new multi-unit development recycling resources
- UNSW to lead new government research hub on waste
- Nestlé in the Loop of the circular economy
- UniSA professor to drive agricultural pollution research
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - November
Here's our waste management news roundup for November 2020
- Toowoomba launches mattress processing trial that could divert at least 3000 items from landfill a year
- Western Australia to phase out single-use plastics by 2023
- South Australians records Australia's best diversion rates
- Tasmanian Budget allocates $30M to waste and resourcerecovery
- NSW Budget commits $96M to accelerate state's circular economy transition
- Coles partners with Cleanaway to convert food waste into compost
- Victorian Govt invests over $300 million into the state's waste and resource recovery sector
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - October
Here's our waste management news roundup for October 2020
- Woolworths launches new recyclable paper meat trays
- USYD researchers successfully create environmentally friendly cement
- Federal Budget reveals $249M boost for the waste and recycling industry
- Aldi to reduce plastic use in packaging by 25% by 2025
- 983,000 tonnes of sandstone from Sydney's WestConnex to be repurposed for construction
- WA's Containers for Change sees 10 million returns within one month
- Queensland's Logan City is the first local government area in Australia to turn human waste into energy
- Maryvale WtE facility achieves 3 key milestones
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - September
Here's our waste management news roundup for September 2020
- 7 projects across NSW have received support of more than $700,000 in grants
- Soft plastic recycling trial to commence on NSW Central Coast
- Asahi to construct $45M recycling facility in NSW
- South Australia is now the first state in Austalia to ban single-use plastics
- NSW Govt releases new guidelines to boost the use of recycled glass asphalt
- Cigarette butt waste can now be recycled into bricks
- Western Australian establishes Containers for Change scheme
- WA Govt allocated $97,039 to establish fly farm for organic waste recovery
- QLD Govt awards $27 million to recycling projects
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - August
Here's our waste management news roundup for August 2020
- $57.5 million invested into East Rockingham waste-energy-facility
- Federal Govt announces $4 million in funding to create new independent entity to drive food waste
- VIC launches $2.6M Sustainable Infrastructure Fund
- Magnum's new tubs and lifes for its pints range now full recyclable
- WWF proposes three Govt actions to halve plastic pollution
- Sims to open VIC recycling plant as part of 11 global resource renewal facilities
- ACT to begin formal phase out of single-use plastics
- NSW commits $10M to boost solr panel recycling
- Recycling and Waste Reducation Bill introduced into Federal Parliament
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - July
Here's our waste management news roundup for July 2020
- Job boost expected from $600m recycling scheme as 2024 export ban looms
- Landfill waste crisis the focus of new research hub
- Is Australia on track to halve food waste by 2030?
- Sustainability Victoria launches Buy Recycled directory
- QLD set to pass single-use plastic ban
- BRII opens $12M environmental challenges funding round
- EPA VIC grants works approval for WtE facility in Dandenong South
- NSW commits $185M to Parkes Special Activation Precinct
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - June
Here's our waste management news roundup for June 2020
- New cold chain study reveals cost of wasted food
- NWRIC State Associations update
- SA allocates $1.6M in funding to tackle waste spike
- Can Australia do better on e-waste?
- Construction sector to prioritise
- Melbourne to establish two new waste and resource recovery hubs
- Could wastewater play a key role in accelerating Australia’s hydrogen industry?
- First organic waste project to power VIC
- drumMUSTER collects 35 millionth container
- Time for Australian newspaper producers to invest in creating market demand
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - May
Here's our waste management news roundup for May 2020
- Recycling Victoria: a new economy? Part three
- COVID-19 causing plastic waste issues
- Clean loop recycling: TOMRA
- Works begin to support $13M Toowoomba waste facility
- WA injects $20M into FOGO
- SA government moves to ban single use plastics
- SA waste management and recycling get a big boost
- Where to with food waste in Australia
- $1B investment could transform Victoria’s waste sector
- Councils and alternative waste industry given funding boost
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - April
Here's our waste management news roundup for April 2020
- City of Parramatta paving the way to a sustainable future
- Applications open for $149M environmental science program
- New CRC initiative seeks 80 per cent reduction in construction waste
- UN urges governments to recognise waste as an essential service
- ANZPAC Plastics Pact to tackle plastic waste in Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands
- AFGC: Heading in a circular direction for waste
- New research into treating wastewater with steel by-product
- 20-Year Waste Strategy
- Melbourne Council goes digital with recycling app
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - March
Here's our waste management news roundup for March 2020
- Amatil supports Victorian CDS
- Bingo opens new Sydney recycling centre
- NSW injects $24M into kerbside FOGO
- NSW proposes levy amendments and mandated government procurement
- MWRRG opens EOIs for advanced waste processing facility
- The roadmap to halve food waste by 2030
- Recycled first boosts reused demand across construction
- Reduce, reuse and recycle for a circular economy
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - February
Here's our waste management news roundup for February 2020
- VIC Govt makes 100M investment in recycling industry
- The future is circular
- Tackling contaminated recyclables in bustling Bondi
- Timber manufactures to conduct energy research
- Vic government’s $ 2 million in funding to strengthen e-waste sector
- Waste projects awarded 20M in CRC grant
- Victoria will get a cash-for-cans container deposit scheme
Site announced for National Radioactive Waste Facility
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - January
Here's our waste management news roundup for January 2020
- City of Melbourne installs floating waste bins
- SA recycles 110,000 plastic bags for infrastructure project
- Woolworths partners with Sydney Zoo to rescue food waste
- Customers can now recycle both Glad wrap and snap lock bag products
- VIC EPA approves Laverton WtE plant
- Simply Cups reaches 10 million milestone
- National program launched to give valuable waste materials second life
- Researchers have found waste glass can be used to improve the strength and durability of concrete
2019
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - December
Here's our waste management news roundup for December 2019
- NSW awards $1M to community recycling centres
- VIC EPA to assess WtE proposal
- VIC councils awarded $1.25M for kerbside upgrades
- Victoria's Parliamentary Inquiry - five critical actions
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - November
Here's our waste management news roundup for November 2019
- Woolworths launches Loop reusable packaging program
- Victoria's single-use plastic ban begins
- QLD CDS achieves 1 billion returns in first year
- SUEZ-ResourceCo hits one million tonnes of process engineered fuel
- Coca-Cola and Veolia to establish Australian plastic recycling plant
- Recycled plastic used to resurface Melbourne streets
- ACOR launches NSW recycling app
- Australian researchers find way to extract and reuse polyester from mixed fabrics
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - October
Here's our waste management news roundup for October 2019
- Plastic bag litter drops 30 per cent in WA
- Coles partners with Cleanaway to convert waste into fuel
- Litter reporting app launched in Tasmania
- Cleanaway launches waste-to-energy plan
- VIC commits $1.6M to recycling research projects
- Single-use plastic bag ban to commence shortly in Victoria
- Cleanaway acquires SKM Recycling
- Unilever to eliminate over 100,000 tonnes of plastic packaging by 2025
- Ikea rolls out nation-wide scheme which saw 1,600 pieces of furniture returned and re-sold
- Ikea Richmond in Melbourne's CBD diverts over 80 tonnes of food waste
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - September 2019
Here's our waste management news roundup for September 2019
- Toowoomba waste transfer facility approved
- Sydney trials kerbside food waste collection
- Queensland to develop Australia's first WWTP gasification facility
- Vineyard dripperlines recycled into 'as new' plastic resin
- Woolies announces 'circular economy' beer made from unused bread
- PhD candidate develops glass waste construction columns
- Albury Council achives 55% diversion of waste
- 9 SA councils prioritises purchase ofp roducts made from recyclables
- Potential new supply stream in recycled battery products
- Construction of new Veolia transfer station commences
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - August 2019
Here's our waste management news roundup for August 2019
- Queensland CDS exceeds annual target three months ahead of schedule
- Coles donates unsold food waste
- Recycled plastic railway sleepers have been installed on Victoria's regional train network
- City of Melbourne joins other Victorian councils in calling for CDS
- Fine-dining chefs cook discarded produce to fight food waste
- Excavated sandstone reused to build new Western Sydney International Airport
- City of Mitcham installs recycled tyre pavement
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - July 2019
Here's our waste management news roundup for July 2019
- Victorian e-waste landfill ban take effect in July
- Queensland levy comes into effect
- Australia's largest plastics recycling plant opens
- Queensland releases waste management strategy
- Victoria to develop 10-year action plan
- Bayside reduced 4000 tonnes of waste going to landfill by using recycled asphalt
- New recycling facility opens in Melbourne
- Knox Recycling takes delivery of Australia's first Untha XR shredder
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - June 2019
Here's our waste management news roundup for June 2019
- New glass recycling plant to process one billion glass bottles annually
- Downer opens soft plastics asphalt plant in Lake Macquarie
- Single-use items to be phased out of Sydney venues and events
- Woolworths implements food waste diversion programs in 100% of its supermarkets
- Deakin researchers develop concrete solution for recycled glass
- Scientists repurposes waste into recyclable plastics
- Single-use plastic bags banned across Victoria from November 1
- Aldi announces new packaging commitments
- Coca-Cola produces Australia's first recycled carbonated soft drink bottle
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - May 2019
Here's our waste management news roundup for May 2019
- City of Yarra to trial kerbside glass collection
- Single-use plastic bottles now banned by Zoos Victoria
- New composting and renewable energy site opened in SA.
- Qantas operates world's first zero waste flight
- Onkaparinga Council to introduce fornightly green bin collection
- Cleanaway trials electric waste collection
- Coles to start selling 'ugly' fruit and vegetables at reduced prices
- Newly opened Waste treatment plant in Melbourne to process 120,000 tonnes of waste per year
- Melbourne can expect more electric waste collection vehicles making rounds
The Monthly Waste Management News Roundup - April 2019
Here's our waste management news roundup for April 2019
- Green waste bins have now rolled out to all of Canberra
- NSW's most advanced beverage recycling centre in Granville launched
- Grants for waste and recycling infrastructure allocated
- Fuji Xerox opens Eco Manufacturing Centre
- ACT proposes single-use plastic ban.
- Tyre recyclers Toowoomba plant receives environmental green light
- Container deposit site to open in Queensland's Hervey Bay.
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