by NWRIC Secretariat | 5 Nov 2021 | Media Release, News
Rose Read, Chief Executive Officer of NWRIC and Peter Olah, National Executive Officer of AORA, explore the challenges and risks of halving organic waste to landfill by 2030. FOGO might be a hot button topic now with enormous potential for organics to step up and help...
by NWRIC Secretariat | 25 Aug 2021 | Media Release, News
Time to ban the export of unprocessed scrap metal This article was first published in Waste Management Review 0n 25 August 2021 The scrap metal industry has long been the recycling ‘poster’ child in Australia. With a recycling rate of 90% in 2018-19 according to the...
by NWRIC Secretariat | 11 Aug 2021 | Media Release, News
ABOUT The NWRIC, with assistance of MRA Consulting, has been funded by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment to develop national recycled material specifications for material recycling facilities (including sorting, primary and secondary...
by NWRIC Secretariat | 23 Jul 2021 | Media Release, News
NWRIC, ACOR and government collaborate to improve Australia’s resource recovery Two of Australia’s leading recycling and resource recovery organisations have joined forces with the Commonwealth Government to improve Australia’s resource recovery standards and...
by NWRIC Secretariat | 12 Feb 2021 | Media Release, News
Queensland is the only state left to announce how it proposes to match and invest the Commonwealth’s funding commitment of $190 million through its Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) to upgrade and expand glass, plastic and tyre recycling infrastructure. National...
by NWRIC Secretariat | 8 Dec 2020 | Media Release, News
When the new year rang in on 1 January 2020, few could have predicated the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring enormous economic and social impact. For many, 2020 has become the year we would rather forget. It’s been challenging for so many sectors, with...