Landmark legislation establishing a national industry relationship framework for recycling has been introduced in Federal Parliament.

The Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020 (and associated provisions) will also authorise the progressive implementation of bans on wa...

A new program to help local councils identify and eliminate single-use plastics from their workplaces has been published.

The Engagement for Plastic-free innovation and Change (EPIC) program was designed by Plastic Oceans Australasia (POA), and includes:

• a step-by-st...

Urban heat mitigation could be enhanced by planned development that takes account of cities as collections of public, not private spaces, new research suggests.

Landcom, the NSW Government’s land and property development agency, says the research “shifts the focus from...

A study that will explore how to manage unstable and weak parts of the electricity grid has just received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

The Grid Innovation Hub at Monash University has received $495,680 in funding to conduct a desktop...

Sutherland Shire Council has rolled out an innovative road construction project, trialling a method that recycles existing road surfaces by reapplying them as part of a ‘foamed asphalt’ mix, employing specialised machinery to complete the process in a single pass.

Suthe...

During the summer, bushfires rained hell on the forest streams of southeastern Australia that the iconic platypus calls home.

Before the fires, the shy monotreme was listed as “Near Threatened” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Thr...

Environmental change is harming health, but our current models of health care are harming the environment too.

An Australian-led, multiregional study has found that the health care sector causes up to 5 per cent of total global environmental damage, placing it alongside...

A coalition of NSW local councils have voluntarily set a target to recycle 45 million glass bottles into useful products each year in an effort to stimulate investment in the region’s recycling industry.

The 11 signatory councils include Bayside, Burwood, Canada Bay, Ca...

The Local Government Association of Queensland has called for immediate investment of $500 million over the next five years in a Regional Water Quality and Wastewater Protection Fund to prevent the State’s water and wastewater services “falling off an infrastructure cl...

A project database of $165 billion underscores the “unmissable opportunity” for sustainable infrastructure to enhance productivity and quality of life while reducing environmental impact, says the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA).

In August,...