Recycling
Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate
While the government has sought another lift to the cap on how much rubbish can be burned each year, proposed waste-to-energy projects are meeting community backlash and regulatory barriers.
- Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Latest
‘Risk to human health’: EPA knocks back giant waste transfer station
Communities in Melbourne’s southeast are celebrating the refusal to allow Veolia to build a waste transfer station, in a blow to council waste disposal plans.
- Adam Carey
This wind farm is retiring, so what happens to its tonnes of steel?
Wind and solar power is cutting emissions, but millions of disused panels and tonnes of turbine waste raise questions about how green clean energy really is.
- Mike Foley and Bianca Hall
- Opinion
- Climate solutions
I’ll FOGO the extra yard for the planet, but this French laundry plan stinks
Saving the environment can be a messy business but re-wearing gym gear?
- Michelle Cazzulino
Recycling scheme a clanking hell for residents
It’s been heralded a success but the Container Deposit Scheme has become a major headache for apartment residents in St Kilda.
- Rachael Dexter
‘New problem child of waste’: The hazard increasingly littering Melbourne’s streets
Discarded vapes make up a growing part of the mess as e-waste moves into the top 10 types of litter found in Victoria for the first time.
- Cara Waters
- Opinion
- Recycling crisis
Red, yellow or green? The stress of putting the wrong thing in the wrong bin
I am stuck in a vicious cycle of attempting to recycle, and no number of colour-coded bins can save me.
- Thomas Mitchell
‘I wouldn’t be alive without this rubbish’: The rapidly growing scheme that has Victorians cashing in
For the truly dedicated, earning a “bincome” from the state’s Container Deposit Scheme is paying off nicely.
- Rachael Dexter
Fear of thousands of cannibal mice helped sink a huge NSW recycling plant
Australia’s largest recycling plant was set to be built next to a crucial medical facility – and the potential impacts were dire.
- Angus Dalton
If you’re served a Coke at a cafe, should you get the 10¢ bottle refund?
Consider this your chance to celebrate this recycling golden age, writes our Modern Guru.
- Danny Katz
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