Browsing: Resource efficiency, waste

A company, its director, and manager have been fined a total of $511,000 and ordered to pay South Australia's EPA $680,000 for operating two unlicensed waste facilities.

Cleanaway claims its new climate change targets are "consistent with a 1.5 degree trajectory", even though they don't result in net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has failed to meet a statutory deadline for listing waste products that urgently require new control measures.

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has unearthed a glaring error in the federal government's report on progress of the national waste policy action plan.

Four landfill gas generation companies have told independent Senator David Pocock that they are open to tighter restrictions on the volume of credits that their projects earn.

• Wesfarmers raises profile of sustainability data
  
• Legislative change frees Coles to trial BYO containers at deli counters
  
• Calls grow for new federal Energy Transition Authority

A Bill to cap waste-to-energy capacity has cleared the Victorian Lower House, and the state government has appointed Recycling Victoria's inaugural chief executive.

A Cleanaway acquisition announced today will resolve a contractual dispute and give the company a foothold in the booming food and garden organics processing sector.