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

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

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

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      

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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 - 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.