Circular Australia has set out 31 key metrics to measure progress towards a circular economy in a new report designed to help governments and organisations to set targets and monitor improvement.
Specialist tyre upcycler Pearl Global, expects the recent listing of end-of-life tyres to the national priority list of problem wastes, and the Labor Government’s commitment to ban the export of waste tyres, will boost demand for its service and the prices paid under the tyre recycling scheme.
Governments must force manufacturers who use soft plastics in their packaging to recover and reuse the material, according to the peak body for Australia's waste and resource recovery industry.
A company involved in a Supreme Court dispute with a council over recycled-content road base has failed to secure an order that its insurer pay its legal costs.
Federal, state and territory environment ministers have agreed to work together on biodiversity markets, and will reform the regulation of e-waste and packaging.
The former chief executive of waste company Bingo, Daniel Tartak, has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting price-fixing in the demolition waste industry, the ACCC has announced.