Planet Ark recently released a guide to reducing and recycling plastics at work, after researchers discovered Australians threw away more than two and a half million tonnes of plastic in 2018-19, with businesses responsible for more than half.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany have developed a process that uses 100% recycled silicon from solar photovoltaic models to produce new PERC solar cells.
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In a bid to fully integrate business waste management solutions and ensure maximum recycling capabilities, Wanless Waste Management is expanding its skip-bin services, W Skips.
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Wanless Waste Management’s NSW business has activated two new resource recovery centres in the Sydney region. The first, just south of the CBD at Botany, is a stone’s throw to Sydney Domestic Terminal; the other is in Smithfield, at the centre of the western industrial precinct, bordered by Wetherill Park, Erskine Park and Huntingwood.
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The Federal Government has awarded Wanless and QUT Centre for Robotics a grant to develop a prototype for the disassembly of mobile phones. The aim of this initial project is to remove phone batteries, but the subsidy has far-reaching benefits in helping tackle the e-waste issues facing the world.
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Wanless Waste Management is excited to announce a new partnership with Qantas Business Rewards. To reward small to medium size businesses for making sustainable business decisions, Wanless Waste Management customers can now earn 1 Qantas Point for every $1 spent on eligible Wanless Waste Management services, capped at a maximum of 2000 Qantas Points per customer per month.
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Wanless Waste Management was recently awarded the Carpentaria Shire contract following a contested tender process.
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The Australian Government has announced it will invest $7 million to build new or expand existing recycling facilities in remote and regional Australia, where a number of townships currently lack access to kerbside recycling.
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This year’s International E-Waste Day 2021 was marked by an estimate that the worldwide mountain of waste electronic and electrical equipment totals 57.4 million tonnes, a greater weight than that of the Great Wall of China, Earth’s heaviest artificial object.
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Wanless weighs up whether to proceed with its resource recovery facility after Ipswich City Council rejected the landfill side of its Ebenezer proposal.
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Pegasus together with Wanless Waste Management has refocused the printing company’s manufacturing strategy to a more environmentally friendly model. Just this past year, Wanless has managed to divert 1275 tonnes of waste from landfill from Pegasus’s Blacktown factory, saving the equivalent of 4600 trees, a million kilowatts of power, 447,000 litres of water and 223 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
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Councillors have made their call on the $50 million development which would process up to one million tonnes of rubbish a year in Ipswich, reported The Courier Mail.
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