Read the latest opinion blog entries.
Mike Ritchie explains that the potential to improve C&I recycling rates in Australia is very high and as a sector, it underperforms in the race to achieve a 70% recovery rate.
MRA Consulting Group’s Mike Ritchie argues that all political commentary on the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), coal and climate change should come with a warning and a declaration on whether the author is a climate change sceptic or not…
ISWA President, Antonis Mavropoulos calls for the UN to recognise that human rights and the environment are closely linked and in fact interdependent…
Anita Lloyd discusses the implications of Brexit on circular economy initiatives, and whether there be opportunities for the UK to move ahead in any respects…
David Coleman discusses why environmental technology is an effective answer for organisations handling significant volumes of waste material.
Lucas van der Schalk, Chief Operating Officer at packaging firm, DS Smith Plastics, discusses how a collaboration between the company’s Plastics and Paper divisions has seen waste turned into an award-winning resource.
SUEZ Australia & New Zealand CEO Mark Venhoek explains why waste to energy infrastructure is the missing link in Australia’s national waste management hierarchy as China’s National Sword policy alters the shape of the industry and opens opportunities…
Only a small fraction of plastic recovered from consumers is actually recycled: the material collected is dirty and so mixed up that most recovered plastic is simply burned or dumped: on land, in rivers, or even directly in the oceans.
Isabel Hilton explains that if we valued plastic differently we would recover its embedded energy and greatly reduce pollution both in the oceans and on land.
WMW’s Collection & Handling chief editor on a topic worthy of debate: Is the waste and recycling industry a suitable place in which to forge ‘a career’?
