Clinical clean up: finding ways to recycle medical waste
Australian hospitals incinerate thousands of tonnes of potentially infectious medical waste every year — and COVID-19 has supercharged the problem. ...
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World-first Queensland facility turning textiles into raw materials
At a new facility in South West Queensland, innovative textile recovery processes will help reduce landfill pileup by turning worn-out ...
Australian-engineered smart robotic recycling system has soft plastics in the bag
In 2017-18, only six per cent of Australian soft plastic waste was recycled. The rest added to the growing mountain ...
Daniel Bosco is turning bottles into concrete
Making concrete requires sand — and lots of it. That’s why some engineers are looking at substituting recycled glass, a ...
Tyres don’t break down easily, but this engineer is determined to recycle them
Tyres are built to last — and that’s a problem when it is time to recycle them. Michael Vainer is ...
Local glass recycling innovation to get bigger audience thanks to acquisition
When Daniel Bosco, Founder and Director of Bluey Technologies, got an enquiry on social media about buying his company, he ...
Infographic: How tyres are entering the circular economy
Each year in Australia, 56 million tyres are disposed of. To keep these tyres from sitting in landfill, experts around ...
World Engineering Day: Circular thinking
To understand the absolute necessity of a properly circular economy, imagine you’re in lockdown in one room of your home. ...
Australian team turns COVID-19 masks into road materials
Australian engineers have developed a circular economy solution for disposable face masks in a bid to tackle pandemic-generated waste.
New CSIRO roadmap sets out a path to a national circular economy
The CSIRO has released a roadmap to creating jobs and reclaiming billions in economic value from plastic, glass, paper and ...
