Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

The Australian Made Campaign is calling on businesses to revisit their procurement policies after research released recently revealed just 20 per cent of Australian companies have ...

Australia's rank on the latest Global Competitiveness Report 2013-14 highlights the "further slippage in Australia's international cost competitiveness", Innes Willox, AiGroup's ...

A major problem facing desalination plants worldwide could soon be solved by nanotechnologists from Flinders University.

The new look Smarter Resources, Smarter Business Program will deliver a range of funding and support opportunities to help Victorian companies better manage their resource use, ...

Scientists have devised a better way to protect groundwater from acids, heavy metals and toxic chemicals, helping to secure the Earth's main freshwater supply.

The latest National Litter index released recently shows Victoria has achieved Australia's best reduction of littered beverage containers.

The WAM GROUP has a comprehensive range of loading bellows which are designed for the efficient, dust-controlled loading of dry dusty bulk solids materials into containers, varying ...

New research from Roy Morgan, commissioned by the Australian Made Campaign, has revealed buying Australian-made products has become more important to Australian consumers.

The exploitation of foreign workers in Australia and the need to make sure that our kids receive the skills and training they require for the jobs of today and tomorrow is back on ...

Australia is about to get its facts straight – that's the message from the team behind the ABC's newly launched Fact Check website and accompanying platforms including television, ...

The Victorian waste industry has welcomed changes made by the Minister for the Environment, the Hon Ryan Smith MP, to the governance of waste matters in the state.

Access to safe drinking water is a step closer to being a reality for those in developing countries, thanks to new research published recently in Nature Communications.

The AMWU has joined industry groups and environmental experts warning Australia would lose potential to develop clean industries and thousands of new jobs if Tony Abbott abolishes ...

Australia's carbon price and limit on emissions can achieve a 25 per cent cut in carbon pollution by 2020, according to new analysis by The Climate Institute for the World Resources ...

Monash University researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first — a graphene-based device that is compact, yet lasts as long as a conventional ...

A new Australian Industry Group report highlights the need for political parties to set out election policies to address the alarming rise in gas prices and the worsening squeeze on ...

A more cooperative approach to saving energy by government regulators and private networks could cut billions of dollars from the nation's electricity bills, according to a study ...

Australia's most powerful supercomputer, which also ranks as one of the largest in the world will enable scientists to gain new and valuable insights into issues of pressing national ...

Federal Minister for Climate Change, Mark Butler has announced construction will start in January on the largest solar power station in the southern hemisphere after the Australian ...

Newly trialled native algae species provide a real hope for the development of commercially viable fuels from algae, a University of Queensland scientist has found.