Tag: recycling

UNSW Sydney is now home to the new ARC Research Hub for Battery and Consumer Wastes, which seeks to recover valuable materials found in Australia’s batteries and other complex wastes.

A collaborative project involving the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) has commercialised a new steel manufacturing process that uses waste rubber feedstock. 

Transparency, clear priorities, and supporting training and research would help in the Albanese government’s goal “to revive our ability to make world-class products,” says Dr Jarryd Daymond from the University of Sydney Business School.

Renewable Metals, a Perth-based lithium battery recycler, has won the inaugural Supercharge Australia Innovation Challenge Award with its technology that converts battery waste into battery metals.

Sustainable building materials manufacturer saveBOARD is establishing its first Queensland facility on the Gold Coast after receiving over $1.7 million in grant funding from the state government. 

The 2023 Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) Australasian Packaging Conference provisional program will be available for the first in-person conference since before the pandemic, attracting delegates from all facets of food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging and manufacturing industries.

Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Meaghan Scanlon announced the first three projects to be funded under the $40 million Queensland Recycling Modernisation Fund (QRMF), which will focus on the remanufacture of waste plastics, glass, paper, cardboard, and tyres into new commercial products.

Material science company Great Wrap has unveiled a compostable stretch wrap made from food waste in an effort to combat the world’s reliance on petroleum-based pallet wrap and plastic pollution. 

Engineers from RMIT University, in collaboration with materials technology company Livefield, have developed new fire-proof building claddings out of recycled glass. 

State Asphalts NSW has begun constructing Australia’s first road made out of recycled coffee cups in suburban Penrith.