Browsing: <a href="/tag/resource-efficiency-waste">Resource efficiency, waste</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/grants-finance">Grants, finance</a>

• Huge hike in state waste levy comes under fire
  
• ARENA awards grants worth $16.5m
  
• Victorian bag ban to include compostable plastic

The Queensland government will use $100 million of its waste levy revenue to help launch its new clean energy generation agency.

• Court to consider SKM fire class action settlement
  
• Boral uses four waste streams in asphalt
  
• New climate resilience grants

• Water pollution costs Porsche $132,000
  
• Environmental agency fined $84,000 for pollution
  
• CEFC-backed composting plant opens in Melbourne

• New scheme under way to certify on-farm biodiversity protection
  
• Rules for earning carbon credits from transport projects under review
  
• Hazwaste permit granted to export fire-damaged bulk carrier

• Costly clean-up looms, as waste site owner goes into liquidation
  
• Three carbon credit methods to be consolidated
  
• NSW Coalition pledges extra $30 million for clean energy

A new state grant scheme will support the conversion of industrial, agricultural and household waste into biofuels, electricity, and substitutes for petroleum-based plastic.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and ARENA today signalled their support for big energy-from-waste plants, providing $113 million to help fund a $668 million facility.

Visy Industries has received a $30 million Clean Energy Finance Corporation loan after demonstrating that it has a pipeline of potential clean energy, efficiency and low-emissions projects.

• State raises concerns about low-quality NPI data
  
• $100 million waste grant scheme open for applications
  
• State government promises 10,000 half-price batteries
  
• Councils win climate adaptation grants