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September 25, 2019

September 25, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Post Formats, Recycling, Uncategorised, Uncategorized, WRISA

Waste export bans are one part of the solution

25 September 2019 The Prime Minister’s August announcement to ban the export several waste types is a welcomed development. It has the potential to reboot local reprocessing and markets for ...

September 20, 2019

September 20, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Post Formats, Recycling, Uncategorised, Uncategorized, WRISA

Waste not: the value of recycling

20 September 2019 NWRIC CEO Rose Read speaks to the RN Money about improving our kerbside recycling system. Australia is squandering $324 million a year in value through an outdated ...

September 3, 2019

September 3, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Recycling, Uncategorised

Location, location, location essential to the future of C&D

Construction recyclers do most of the heavy lifting in Australian recycling, but several stones remain in the gears to drive its future, writes Rose Read, CEO of the National Waste ...

August 8, 2019

August 8, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Recycling, Uncategorised

Industry meets with Federal and Victorian Ministers to discuss the future of waste and recycling

Ministers met with the waste and recycling industry on 6 August in Melbourne to discuss solving recycling challenges, developing markets for recycled materials, new infrastructure capacity, and how waste levies ...

August 1, 2019

August 1, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Recycling, Uncategorised, WRISA

Composting remains our biggest recycling opportunity

With all the recent discussion about plastic exports, it’s easy to forget that organics remains our single largest recycling opportunity, writes Rose Read CEO of the National Waste Recycling Industry ...

July 30, 2019

July 30, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, Policy, Post Formats, Recycling, Uncategorised, WRISA

Addressing the recycling crisis in Victoria and nation wide

Earlier this week, Victorians were faced with the news that their recycling could be headed straight for landfill after recycling plant SKM decided to shut its doors to over 30 ...

June 25, 2019

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Asst Minister Evans tours Victoria’s leading sustainable asphalt and glass recycling plant

On 25 June, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management the Hon. Trevor Evans MP visited Alex Fraser’s newly opened sustainable asphalt and glass recycling plant. Evans toured the ...

June 11, 2019

June 11, 2019 in Affiliates, Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Post Formats, Recycling, Uncategorised, WRISA

Plastics: from crisis to opportunity

Our Asian neighbours now want Australians to process their plastics domestically. But how do we step up and meet this challenge? NWRIC CEO Rose Read speaks to the ABC about ...

May 28, 2019

May 28, 2019 in Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Recycling, Uncategorised

NWRIC welcomes appointment of Environment and Waste Ministers

The National Waste & Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC) welcomes the Prime Minister’s announcement on Sunday of the appointment of the Hon. Sussan Ley MP to Minister for Environment, the Hon. ...

May 15, 2019

May 15, 2019 in Council, Home Page Slider, National, NWRIC, Policy, Recycling, Uncategorised

Recycling and Waste Associations Rate Major Parties Election Promises

The inaugural Recycling & Waste Policy Report Card on the Federal election policies of the ALP, Coalition and the Greens has found unprecedented political interest and progress in improving Australia’s ...

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