Category: News

Close the Loop trial tackles beauty packaging recycling

Close the Loop, with the support of the Australian Government, is running a trial to collect all brands of makeup and beauty product packaging for recycling.

Wanless develops Hexham industrial site in Newcastle, providing employment and environmental protection

Wanless develops Hexham industrial site in Newcastle, the 8.7 hectare site on Sparke Street under proposal for a new industrial warehouse and hardstand.

Planet Ark | Reducing and recycling plastics at work

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.

German experts closer to solar panel recycling with silicon process

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.

Wanless Waste Management launches W Skips

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.

Two new sydney resource and recovery locations

Wanless expands to two new Sydney-based resource and recovery locations

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.

Wanless and QUT win grant to tackle e-waste with robotics

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.

Wanless Waste Management partners with Qantas Business Rewards

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.

Wanless wins contested Carpentaria Shire waste management contract

Wanless Waste Management was recently awarded the Carpentaria Shire contract following a contested tender process.

Regional Australia to receive boost in recycling infrastructure

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.

Individuals can make a difference to e-waste recycling

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.

Wanless reconsiders options for Wanless Recycling Park

Wanless weighs up whether to proceed with its resource recovery facility after Ipswich City Council rejected the landfill side of its Ebenezer proposal.