Waste & Environmental Management Feature Articles for Australian Industry

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Going green in business: How to save money and the planet 10/23/2009

As our awareness of our environmental impact grows, more and more businesses are looking to decrease their carbon footprints and lower their impact on the world around them.

Report outlines Aust's engineering challenges for 21st century 10/22/2009

The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering will soon launch a landmark report, which comprehensively reviews professional engineering performance, innovation and risk.

Govt's space effort ramped up to aid inventiveness 10/21/2009

The Rudd Government has ramped up the nation’s space effort with the opening of the new $40 million Australian Space Research Program.

Reforms to play role in boosting Aust's dairy export industry 10/21/2009

New reforms to Australia’s dairy export system will cut red tape and help improve market access in the United States and European Union, according to the Minister for Agriculture, ...

NSW unemployment is heading in the right direction: Down 10/20/2009

NSW’s largest employer organisation, NSW Business Chamber, has said that employment data was a positive outcome for NSW with unemployment falling from 6.1% to 5.6% but warned this ...

Contractors provide new guidance for the construction industry 10/15/2009

The Australian Constructors Association (ACA) has released an Industry Discussion Paper to provide guidance to construction industry organisations with a reporting obligation under ...

Follow five important business processes that can drive success 10/13/2009

Business processes are the flows of activities that get things done in your business. Once processes are identified and measured, you can automate, streamline and even redesign them ...

Reports underline the resilience of Australia's financial markets 10/12/2009

Austrade has launched its 2009 Financial Services Benchmark Report in conjunction with the Australian Financial Markets Association's (AFMA) 2009 Australian Financial Markets Report ...

Make better sales conversion and cut waste through measuring 10/9/2009

For better sales conversion, you must eliminate waste. It is easy to waste too much time and money trying to convert customers and waste revenue from failing to convert customers.

Small bits of metal may play a key role in advancing solar power 10/8/2009

Researchers at Ohio State University are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun's energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible ...

New Asia Pacific Network encourages green building to take off 10/7/2009

Bob McMullan MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, launched the new Asia Pacific Green Building Network in Melbourne recently as part of World Green ...

Report will contribute to making escape from buildings easier 10/7/2009

A new ISO technical report on how people behave when fire breaks out will help in designing safer buildings that make escape easier and reduce exposure to flames and heat.

CSIRO and China Geological Survey have signed agreement 10/6/2009

CSIRO has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the China Geological Survey (CGS).

WorkSafe inspection campaign takes look at tilt-up construction 10/6/2009

WorkSafe will begin an inspection campaign soon to look at safety standards in the tilt-up construction industry.

September Australian PMI®: Manufacturing holds on to its gain 10/2/2009

Manufacturing held on to its gains in September with activity expanding for the second consecutive month according to the latest Australian Industry Group - PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

Turning unwanted waste spewed from power stations into gold 10/1/2009

Millions of tonnes of unwanted waste spewed out by Australia’s power stations, mineral processing plants and municipalities can be re-used to create fertility, health, wealth, beauty ...

Ai Group makes address on energy security and climate change 9/30/2009

The topic of this Focus Session Competitiveness and Economic Development goes to the heart of the dilemmas of climate policy: The complexity of tackling climate change while maintaining ...

CSIRO research focuses on new manufacturing breakthroughs 9/22/2009

Flexible plastic solar cells that can be printed like money, carbon fibres so thin they can be spun into yarns and a raft of new biomedical products to combating illness and injury ...

Need to abolish coercive powers in building and construction 9/21/2009

Unions have welcomed the recognition by a Senate committee that there is no place for coercive powers in any workplace and that all workers should be subject to the same laws.

Scientists research into energy efficient aluminium smelting 9/17/2009

Scientists from CSIRO and five Universities will research sustainable energy-efficient technologies for the Australasian aluminium industry through a collaboration launched recently. ...

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