MRA News
25 December 2021
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We wish you a safe, happy and sustainable festive season.
Awards
10 December 2021
Inside Waste Consultants Review 2021: Another win for MRA!
The results of the Inside Waste Consultants Review 2021 are in and MRA has swept the field again.
Recycling
6 December 2021
A non-wastie view of recycling
Why does it seem to require expert knowledge of the waste management sector to understand the yellow kerbside recycling bin? Why is that even if you are a waste expert, you can never be sure what can go into a specific council’s recycling bin without first looking it up?
Compost
3 December 2021
Virginia discusses compost at Soils For Life podcast
MRA's Virginia Brunton took part in the second Soils for Life podcast episode on compost, sharing farmer experiences and policy opportunities.
Grants
15 November 2021
NSW grants now open: Recycling Modernisation Fund and Remanufacture NSW
The NSW Government has created a $10 million fund to reduce landfilling of solar panels and battery systems. Phase 1 of the Circular Solar grants program (trial phase) awarded $1.1 million in funding for eligible trial projects.
Carbon
11 November 2021
What does the IPCC report mean?
The COP26 climate change summit took place between 31 October and 13 November 2021 in Glasgow. The reason we needed this summit is that we are very efficient at pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere but singularly useless at getting it back out again.
Circular Economy
19 October 2021
MRA’s cheat sheet on the Circular Economy
Our current economic model is pretty much a linear one: take (extract) - make (stuff) - waste (landfill). It treats resources as infinite and assumes the environment can absorb the waste. It is therefore unsustainable in the long run.
Circular Economy
14 October 2021
A day in the life of a Circular Economy consultant
People often ask “Is MRA doing any Circular Economy work?”.
The answer is “Plenty”.
Grants
11 October 2021
NSW grants now open: Solar panel recycling
The NSW Government has created a $10 million fund to reduce landfilling of solar panels and battery systems. Phase 1 of the Circular Solar grants program (trial phase) awarded $1.1 million in funding for eligible trial projects.
Carbon
5 October 2021
Super-spreader landfills causing climate change
For more than ten years, MRA has been arguing for an “Organics Revolution” in Australia to remove organics from landfill.
FOGO
28 September 2021
NSW grants now open: Organics Collections
The NSW EPA announced Round 9 of the Organics Collection Household stream grant program which aims to divert food and garden waste from landfill and redirect it to organics processing facilities.
Legislation
23 September 2021
NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041 – a Planning Perspective
The NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041 has ambitious targets to achieve an 80% average recovery rate from all waste streams, triple the plastics recycling rate and halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill by 2030.Â
