November
Why it’s getting harder to find a designer label op-shop bargain
Charities and dedicated boutiques know the value of second-hand luxury goods and are tapping into a growing market for these items.
- Maida Pineda
Why glass is the material of the moment in homewares
Alchemist Ben Edols has produced a series of exquisite works for Sydney interior designer Alexandra Kidd’s inaugural Prima collection.
- Stephen Todd
October
Why your Lululemon yoga pants could be a good investment
An Australian start-up has found a way to turn plastics otherwise destined for landfill into yoga pants and T-shirts. And fashion brands are seeing an opportunity.
- Julie Hare
How these Aussie cafes are keeping laptops out of landfill
Repair cafés are part of a growing culture of re-use, recycle and repair around Australia as garbage levels soar and recycling systems break down.
- Tom McIlroy
Repair and reuse movement booms as inflation bites
Research by waste management giant Veolia shows Australians facing rising consumer prices are fixing important items, rather than replacing them.
- Tom McIlroy
September
Recycling infrastructure outfit CDSA rattles the tin
CDSA pitches itself as a more efficient alternative to manual recycling depots.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Recycling is a must for the mining industry, BHP boss says
Mike Henry’s comments raise the question of whether BHP might follow Rio Tinto with a bigger investment in the scrap industry.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This fintech lets you pay for fuel with bitcoin
A small, but growing, cohort of consumers is tapping their crypto wallets to pay for fuel, powered by a local payments innovation.
- Tess Bennett
August
Why this Rich Lister wants to recycle your pizza boxes
Visy boss Anthony Pratt has unveiled upgrades to his Melbourne plants that he says will keep 400 Olympic swimming pools of paper and cardboard out of landfill.
- Gus McCubbing
Timber waste recycling hopeful goes bust, Mitsui appoints receivers
Queensland’s Altus Renewables turned pine sawdust into wood pellets for power stations. It brought in McGrathNicol on Friday.
- Liam Walsh
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- Funding
This start-up’s ‘maggot robot’ will tackle Woolies’ food waste
Canberra start-up Goterra has raised $10 million and will open a new $3.5 million food waste facility in Sydney.
- Tess Bennett
July
- Exclusive
- Mergers & acquisitions
Rio Tinto in billion-dollar recycling push
Rio Tinto is preparing to spend close to a billion dollars on a metal recycling acquisition in North America.
- Peter Ker
June
World-beating Australian recycling tech debuts in UK, Japan
Sydney-based Licella is poised to reveal partners for a proposed plant on the Dow Chemical site at Altona, in Melbourne’s west, in coming weeks.
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- Ben Potter
Plastic recycling push held back by lack of nationwide plan
A more determined approach including government action is needed to accelerate the transition to sustainable plastics, say IKEA and Arnott’s executives.
- Ben Potter
May
This Australian crowdfunded start-up is making an edible coffee cup
Good-Edi’s Millennial co-founders count on shifting consumer sentiment and a beverage industry under pressure to offer more sustainable, takeaway options.
- Aaron Clark and Keira Wright
April
Why Mars chose Australia for a world-first shift
The conglomerate will roll out the change across local supermarkets before it commits to a global launch.
- Simon Evans
March
Australia has an unquenchable thirst for the world’s costliest water
Why do Australians continue to buy the most expensive bottled water on earth, when they can get it for less than 1¢ a litre out of the tap?
- Tracey Ferrier
February
- Exclusive
- Funding
This miner just raised $55m to extract gold from old electronics
Mint Innovation will start recycling e-waste next month in Sydney to produce gold and copper. PE fund Liverpool Partners is so impressed it has led a $NZ60m funding round.
- Yolanda Redrup
Managers become garbos as Cleanaway tries to fill 670 jobs
CEO Mark Schubert says the group has been pulling out all stops to keep pick-up services running, as overtime bills dragged on profits.
- Simon Evans
Reliance Worldwide cuts jobs as interim profits rise 5pc
The plumbing supplies group is getting rid of about 50 jobs in the US to meet new cost-cutting targets as it battles tougher economic conditions.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
