Former mining communities across UK could find a new lease of life – with old mine shafts turned into hi-tech green energy stores.
By Dr Robin Branson PhD, MBA, BSc. (Hons), Director Australian Industrial Ecology Network (retired)
The article in Q1 of The ASIA Miner flagged a short detour to the AIEN Forum on Energy from Waste (EfW), which took place in Ballarat, Victoria from 19-22 February 2018.
THE operators of composting facilities face a dilemma - on the one hand, customers demand compost of increasingly higher quality while on the other, organic waste contains a steadily rising amount of foreign particles.
INTERNATIONAL sustainability economist and plastic circular economies expert Doug Woodring says Australia’s recycling record is behind global standards and lags most OECD countries on diversion from landfill. He believes that this creates an opportunity for Australia to dominate the new $100 billion global plastic circular economy in Asia Pacific, if it acts now.