Circular Economy
26 June 2025
Waste in Australia (total generation and per capita) continues to grow, driving up GHG emissions and exhausting landfill space.
To decouple waste generation from economic growth, Circular Economy is the key.
MRA Projects
12 June 2025
Waste management in the Pacific often gets neglected in favour of other issues. Donor countries can change that.
Compost
8 May 2025
FOGO is taking off across Australia.
All the more reason to implement stricter, and uniform, compost standards.
Recycling
22 April 2025
Recycling won’t save the earth, but it does make a significant contribution.
Circular Economy
17 April 2025
Packaging recycling in Australia has some way to go.
Both in terms of meeting the national 2025 Waste Targets and in terms of reducing the use of dangerous chemicals and composite materials that pollute and hinder recycling.
Government intervention was supposed to help. This has not happened yet.
Compost
12 March 2025
Now that State Governments are mandating FOGO collections, it is more important than ever to pay attention to the quality of the product and our compost markets.
Organics
6 February 2025
Starting on 1 July 2025 large food waste generators will no longer be able to send organics to landfill. This major reform will improve resource recovery, create hundreds of jobs, reduce landfill consumption and reduce GHG emissions.
State of Waste
30 December 2024
As 2024 comes to an end, Mike Ritchie reflects on the State of Waste in Australia, lays out some basic facts that everyone in the sector should be aware of, and puts forward a to do list for 2025.
Circular Economy
28 November 2024
In 2018 we set National Packaging Targets with a 2025 horizon.
2025 is upon us. How have we fared?
Circular Economy
25 October 2024
Isn’t it amazing that the media can so consistently fail to join the dots on climate change?
litter
17 September 2024
CDS effectiveness should be measured as the net increase in eligible container capture OVER and ABOVE what would have happened anyway under yellow bin and MRF collection systems.
Circular Economy
27 June 2024
Which product stewardship schemes are most effective? Not many!