by jane bremmer | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog
Today the NSW government released their long awaited Energy from Waste Infrastructure Plan which limits incinerators to industrial areas but cynically allows waste burning across many other industries. “Many communities in NSW who have been facing the very...
by jane bremmer | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog
Today the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill was passed in the Senate without amendment. Despite a senate inquiry into the bill and attempts by the Greens and Labor, the Government refused to allow amendments to the bill that would address plastic pollution and...
by jane bremmer | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog
The Australian Governments Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill is progressing through the Australian Parliament this week. The bill is designed to strengthen product stewardship laws and prevent the export of Australian waste in response to the international...
by jane bremmer | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog
The Australian government’s much touted Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill which will be debated in the Senate next Monday 9th November establishes a legal framework to repackage Australia’s plastic waste as fuel and send it to poor countries to burn. It also...
by jane bremmer | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog
A new report commissioned by the Greater London Authority on the health impacts of waste incineration finds that Fifteen deaths of London residents per year are attributable to emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter from the capital’s five energy from...
