Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
If you join as an Individual member of Zero Waste Australia which costs $55.00 including GSTyou will receive up to 20% discount on the registration fees for the Zero Waste Summit.
Member delegates are
eligible for a 20% discount if you register for the Zero Waste Summit 2010
Which is being held at Luna Park in Sydney,
Australia on 13-15 September
2010. Please contact Kim Russell on 0428 696350 or the event organizer, Peter Evans (
Due to the planned eviction of revolve from its current site this project is on hold until we can identify an opportunity to complete this project.
Zimbike
Life-changing Transport
Donating your old bike to Revolve could mean a life-changing experience for a family in Zimbabwe, according to Zero Waste Australia Executive Officer, Kim Russell.
Recycling is good, but zero waste is even better
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
Waste prevention is the mantra. Zero waste, product stewardship; these are the directions in which we need to move.
Even as recycling makes gains across the land — it’s now equal to or better than the automotive industry in providing jobs for Americans — we seem to still find ways to buy and toss more junk than ever before.
Do you have a suggestion on a Topic(s) which is relevant and would
add value to the Zero Waste Summit 2010 programme?
If so we would like to hear from you. We are now accepting papers
which cover experiences, emerging technologies, operational issues,
policy matters affecting sustainable solutions in waste recycling.
Please click here and fill in the form to submit your
entry.
The Hon Peter Garrett MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Gave the opening address for the Zero Waste Summit held in Sydney on the 30th November and 1st December it provided a timely focus on the future prospects for the waste industry in a Climate Change world.
The wider economic viability of collecting and composting urban organic waste for use as a cost effective, high quality agricultural input is about to be put to the test as part of a new partnership project between farmers and the Goulburn Mulwaree, Palerang, Queanbeyan City and Lachlan Councils.
The Groundswell project will get underway in Condobolin, in the Lachlan Shire, where collections are scheduled to start in May 2008, with collections to follow in Goulburn (August 2008), Queanbeyan and Palerang Shires (November 2008).
Donating your old bike to Revolve could mean a life-changing experience for a family in Zimbabwe, according to Zero Waste Australia Executive Officer, Kim Russell.
"We are partnering with Revolve to transport bikes donated by the Canberra regional community to families in Zimbabwe: said Mr Russell. "Many people in Zimbabwe who still have work, have a hard time paying to get to work with the rising costs of transport. Some of them are walking up to 20 miles a day to get to their job because they can no longer afford the inflationary cost of bus fare".
Deserts could soon be irrigated with date stones under a process developed by
a Saudi royal studying at Queen’s University Belfast.
Prince Abdulrahman Bandar Al-Saud has found a novel use for the millions of
date stones that are thrown away in his country each year, devising a method
of using the carbon-rich seeds to purify waste water and industrial effluent.
The nephew of King Abdullah worked on the system as part of his PhD study at
Queen’s school of chemistry and chemical engineering.