Lithium Australia’s lithium ion battery (LIB) recycling subsidiary Envirostream Australia has achieved a significant milestone, delivering its first positive operating profit during Q4 FY24. The achievement was driven by the company’s transition towards an upstream service model, which has increased revenues with a higher proportion of revenues now received upfront through recycling fees. Lithium Australia…
A recycling plant at Caboolture, Queensland is turning glass bottles and polystyrene into building materials and next year will go further and begin producing masonry blocks from waste aggregate, removing quarried materials from the process. Queensland State Development Minister Grace Grace visited the Casafico operation at Caboolture which was backed by a $175,000 Queensland and…
UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT) and IT asset management company Renew IT have announced that a new factory has begun turning hard plastics from e-waste into 3D printing feedstock. A Plastics Filament MICROfactorie module, developed by UNSW Sydney researchers, has been installed at Renew IT’s warehouse in Lane Cove, on…
According to Tyre Stewardship Australia, government procurement and a stronger product stewardship approach are the keys to processing the estimated 500,000 tonnes of used tyres generated in Australia annually. The organisation’s CEO Lina Goodman said that markets for recycled tyre products had plateaued and could fail, during a recent address to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry…
Plastic recycling startup Samsara Eco has raised $100 million in its latest funding round. Led by global investment company, Temasek and Australian deep tech investment fund, Main Sequence, funds also came from Wollemi Capital, lululemon, Hitachi Ventures, Titanium Ventures (formerly Telstra Ventures) and DCVC. The capital will help Samsara Eco scale its enzymatic recycling capabilities,…
Around 30 fires per day are being caused across Australia’s recycling and waste facilities due to batteries, according to new research from the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) and the Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of NSW (WCRA.) According to a joint statement from the pair on Friday, there have been somewhere between 10,000 and…
Brisbane’s Rino Recycling is trumpeting the success of its $95 million fully automated recycling plant at Pinkenba that turns construction and demolition waste into material for new infrastructure projects. Rino major projects manager Mat Stafford took to social media to reveal that the plant processed 17,386 tonnes of construction and demolition waste in a week…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers report now available Following last month’s heavily-anticipated announcement of the Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers list for 2024, @AuManufacturing is now making a report based on the five-month campaign freely available. Download the 36-page e-book for…
The Queensland government has announced a $45 million package aimed at facilitating large scale, high recovery waste recycling projects, part of the state’s $2.1 billion waste and resource recovery package. State Development Minister Grace Grace visited BMI Group’s Stapylton Resource Recovery Centre (pictured), which is diverting over 185,530 tonnes of waste from landfill every year…
Architectural and industrial supplier Dulux Powder Coatings has joined the The Australian Micro Recyclers Association (AMRA), a group dedicated to growing decentralised recycling and manufacturing around Australia. In a statement on Wednesday, Dulux said that membership would assist it in meeting sustainability goals “by reducing carbon emissions and waste to landfill, with a priority on…
