This dress from trash could last a thousand years. An entrant in the Sustainable Neighbourhoods, Waste to Art exhibition, this dress designed and made by mother of two, Britt Timmins, is an…

Ecobatt by Ecocycle Woolworths has joined the campaign to keep batteries and mobile phones out of landfill, ensuring they remain in the product loop for another round of the manufacturing…

PICTURE: Anna Noon, Warners Bay Area Sustainable Neighbourhood Group and face mask recycling coordinator with Bunnings staff at the installation of the TerraCycle face mask recycling box, which is appropriately…

Recycling the TerraCycle way  Everything collected through the Zero Waste Box system is sorted and processed into raw materials that can be reused instead of being sent to landfill. Read…

Officeworks sets impressive targets Part of the Recycling Near You network in association with Planet Ark It used to only be printer cartridges and mobile phones, but now the range…

Circular Economy in Lake Macquarie In a recent webinar hosted by Dantia, a business unit of Lake Mac Council, Debbie O'Byrne, Circular Economy Lead, spoke about: a recently completed City…

Barry Commoner is not a household name, but he has a few things to say about ecology that are worth noting; one of them being: The first law of ecology is that…

Polystyrene 'waste' recycling at Awaba Lake Mac Council has installed a polystyrene compacting machine (watch Steven Merritt in this YouTube demonstration) at the Awaba Waste Management Facility. (AWMF) The machine melts the polystyrene…

Self Sustainable Zero Waste Productive Home More than a pipe dream, this is a real live example of the Circular Economy in practice.   Gardening Australia host, Costa Georgiados, is visiting an…

Very important work has been done over the last decade to take industrial ecology and the circular economy into the mainstream. Daniel Wahl, writing in Circular Asia, says: 'A lot…