waste

The WA plan for plastics will be fast-tracked by four years; the government will be offering support for business to help with the transition from single-use plastics.

To achieve current national targets, policy-makers are increasingly asking if we can instead safely burn waste as fuel. Belief says we cant, but evidence says we can.

Through various stages of lockdown and isolation, for many of us a lot of days in 2020 have felt much the same. But 22 August is different. Because if humanity was given an annual budget for the Earth’s natural resources, 22 August marks the day we blew it.

Three Victorian Councils have launched a program that encourages startups to improve outcomes for local communities with the support of government funding. In partnership with consultancy Collective Campus, the Cities of Ballarat, Casey and Whittlesea will give startups and scaleups the opportunity to share their solutions to address problems through the Springboard program.