Kapture links up with Deakin’s REACH, aims to trial fertiliser from diesel exhaust in late-2026

Melbourne start-up Kapture has announced a partnership with Deakin University’s Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH), aimed at progressing a device capturing carbon dioxide from combustion engines and converting the gas into fertiliser. According to a statement from Deakin on Wednesday, Kapture’s technology can be retrofitted to collect diesel pollution from generators, widely used…

ATSE/Fortescue report looks at weaning heavy industry off diesel fuels

A new report released by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in partnership with resources company Fortescue, recommends changes to policy and tax to help reduce diesel fuel use in the mining, road freight, agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries. According to a statement from scientific and technical body ATSE on Wednesday, there…