Australia's music festivals can produce an astonishing two kilograms of waste per person per day. Research from Green Music Australia, a non-profit organization focused on sustainability in the live ...

Overlooking the huge Woodlawn landfill about three hours from Sydney, the scale of Australia's waste challenge is laid bare. All day, every day, a procession of trucks make their way to the bottom of ...

Between 10 and 20 per cent of the 3 million coffee pods Australians consume daily are actually recycled. Here's what's being ...

Australia is building waste-to-energy plants to reduce landfill and generate electricity, with 10 plants currently under development. While some see this as a solution to the country's waste problem, ...

Following ongoing heatwaves and ongoing high fire risks, the ACT Greens are pushing for the ACT Government to renew their now lapsed policy to ban ...

Every year, Australia buries millions of tonnes of waste in landfills. But these sites are filling fast, recycling has its own limitations, and most waste export is banned. So councils and state ...

Researchers from the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say the nation’s solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought ...

Mr Cook last month formally opened Acciona’s new $700m-plus Kwinana Energy Recovery facility in Perth’s south, the first such facility of its kind in the country. The technology has been used ...

Discover what happens to old solar panels and how solar panel recycling in Australia is shaping a cleaner, circular energy ...

Currently, just 12% of the nation’s computers are recycled, and Australia is the fourth-highest generator of e-waste per capita. This a significant environmental risk, because poorly managed e-waste ...

A detailed audit of an Australian acute care hospital found that around 41% of food served to patients and nearly 88% of kitchen waste was discarded, mainly due to unserved meals and high plate waste ...