The German company Remondis AG & Co., has acquired the waste management business of the Australian construction company Leighton Holdings for around $218 million. The deal is expected to be completed ...

Australia is building waste-to-energy plants to reduce landfill and generate electricity, with 10 plants currently under development. While some see this as a solution to the country's waste problem, ...

The death in Melbourne’s western suburbs on December 17 is the fifth fatality linked to the recycling and waste management ...

The Australian government will not proceed to establish a national radioactive waste management facility at Muckaty Station after the Northern Land Council withdrew its nomination of the site. The ...

Australia has taken a step nearer to setting up a national facility for the management of its radioactive waste with the passage of new legislation by the country's senate. Australia has taken a step ...

Currently, just 12% of the nation’s computers are recycled, and Australia is the fourth-highest generator of e-waste per capita. This a significant environmental risk, because poorly managed e-waste ...

Penrith City Council deploys Microsoft Dynamics 365 customer service for digital transformation Penrith City Council in NSW has deployed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service as part of a ...

Mr Cook last month formally opened Acciona’s new $700m-plus Kwinana Energy Recovery facility in Perth’s south, the first such facility of its kind in the country. The technology has been used ...

Although there's no doubt that marine plastic waste pollution is a major environmental problem, there may be at least a small sliver of hope. According to a new study, plastic trash on Australian ...

Aborigines challenging proposals to dump nuclear waste from northern Scotland to a sacred Australian site have won a breakthrough meeting with government officials about their concerns. Wallerberdina, ...

Researchers from the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say the nation’s solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought ...