Australia's Environment Ministers to meet - more time wasting on waste?
Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke will meet his state counterparts for the first time tomorrow to discuss solutions to the nation’s waste crisis, with crucial action already delayed many months....
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Peter Garrett and State Environment Ministers have taken their first historic steps towards a recycling economy, the Boomerang Alliance said today. “The announcement of a National Waste Policy for...
View Articleministers make waste history
The 18th meeting of the Environment Protection & Heritage Council (EPHC) in Tasmania today resolved to introduce a ‘fluoro recycling scheme’ and to finalise industry schemes for tyres, computers...
View Articlewaste mountain needs to be climbed by ministers
“We are calling for five key actions: • Expedite the establishment of a national extended producer responsibility scheme for televisions, via mandatory industry participation (as requested by the...
View Articlewaste companies, recyclers and environmentalists unite agaianst global warming
Currently, the dumping of food, garden, paper and wood wastes produces high levels of landfill gas, consisting mostly of methane, which has a global warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide....
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