The five recipients of new grants to tackle solar panel waste include one company with a management team comprising former senior executives from Cleanaway and hazardous waste business Tellus.
In a move that would strengthen the economic case for food and garden organic waste collections, a proposed change to the ERF would allow businesses to earn ACCUs by producing biomethane from organic waste.
Cleanaway is close to securing a site for a new energy-from-waste facility in Queensland, while Brickworks and APA Group could be energy customers for another facility in Victoria.
A $600 million energy from waste project at Opal's Maryvale paper mill in the Latrobe Valley has secured a $48.2 million federal grant, the company announced today.
A Western Australian council is considering using solar power and landfill gas to power an electrolyser that would produce hydrogen using the waste facility's leachate as feedwater.