Industry urges national clean-up
21 August, 2007In the lead-up to the federal election Australian industry is calling for priority action to clean up the nation's legacy of past industrial contamination, to enhance the nation's ‘clean green’ export image.
Most Americans don’t know plastic is made from oil
26 April, 2007A nationwide survey in the US in April found that 72% of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products and 40% believes it will biodegrade.
Who's responsible for litter?
12 March, 2007 by Janette WoodhouseWe have a great boss. Every year, for Clean Up Australia Day, he dresses us in flouro-coloured vests, supplies us with lunch and sends us off to clean a local road.
Australian students given opportunity to create sustainable future
30 January, 2007A program launched by Nespresso Australia will see a local student travelling to Costa Rica to discover how to create a more sustainable future.
Creative market for waste product
14 December, 2005Tropical fruit wine has found international approval and is now being exported to Singapore and Taiwan by a winner of the Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Women's Award. Developed out of frustration with the 'excessive' wastage of tropical fruit in traditional markets, tropical fruit wine has rapidly developed into a new regional industry.
Protein-enriched food from winery waste
19 October, 2005The wine industry is set to benefit from a technology being developed at the University of South Australia that enables winery wastewater to be turned into a protein-rich feed source for farm animals.
