Oxo-degradable polystyrene foam containers produced
20 March, 2007
Cascades has launched Bioxo, the first product line of containers made from totally oxo-degradable polystyrene foam.
Who's responsible for litter?
12 March, 2007 by Janette Woodhouse
We 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, 2007
A program launched by Nespresso Australia will see a local student travelling to Costa Rica to discover how to create a more sustainable future.
Pump drive saves energy
19 January, 2007 | Supplied by: Bonfiglioli Transmission Pty Ltd
Traditionally, pumps are started 'DOL' or direct on line. By that we mean when there is demand for (example) water, the operator throws a switch or closes a contactor and the pump turns on
Reducing energy use in an industrial tea drier
11 December, 2006 | Supplied by: FoodStream Pty Ltd
Drying is the major process used at the Nerada Tea Estates plant in North Queensland, the largest tea growing and processing enterprise in Australia, where green leaf tea is converted into dry black tea
Effluent discharge at chocolate factory
13 November, 2006 | Supplied by: Siemens Ltd
RS Hydro has been granted a contract to install MCERTS approved flow monitoring equipment at a chocolate factory
PET recycling material certified as food-grade
07 July, 2006
KRONES has been offering a compact-size PET bottle-to-bottle recycling facility for bottlers and converters, designed to produce food-grade PET from used PET material.
Separating nutrients from waste
21 February, 2006
Together the University of Western Sydney's Centre for Advanced Food Research (CAFR) and Food Science Australia (FSA) have invented a way to separate and purify the nutrients contained in manufacturing waste.
Savings through refrigeration energy management control
06 February, 2006 | Supplied by: Sustainability Victoria
Businesses can benefit significantly by moving towards energy management practices. Energy management can be incorporated into existing business systems to provide an integrated approach to business sustainability
Creative market for waste product
14 December, 2005
Tropical 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, 2005
The 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.
Soluble labels are not for food
11 October, 2005
A UK-based electronics manufacturer is nearing the end of trials testing a soluble label that decomposes to indicate whether the product inside has been exposed to damaging conditions.
Using wastewater from the canning industry
14 June, 2005
Irrigation with wastewater from the canning industry is not harmful to the quality of agricultural soil and may even, in some cases, improve it. This is the conclusion of Iñigo Abdón Virto Quecedo in his PhD thesis defended at the Public University of Navarre.
Compostable packaging taped
03 January, 2005
Used plastic wrappings and containers make good fuel if incinerated but are also dumped in huge quantities on landfill sites.
A more efficient process to create polystyrene packaging
30 December, 2004
Polystyrene foam is widely used in a variety of applications, including packaging and drinking cups. These different types of foam are all commercially produced from a single starting material - high-density spherical beads of expandable polystyrene (EPS).
