Food waste recycling startup Goterra has crossed the border into Queensland in a collaboration with Brisbane’s Howard Smith Wharves precinct. The deal will see Goterra’s robotic processing plants, which use black soldier fly larvae to eat through food waste, installed at the riverside entertainment precinct under the Story Bridge as part of its drive to be… Read more »
While vending machines offer convenience and ease for anyone with a few dollars and thirsty, the supply-chain logistics around them are staggering when you drill down into the environmental impact. Putting aside the transport emissions, less than 20% of the 891 billion-plus single-use plastic bottles are produced annually worldwide are ever recycled. A 2020 report… Read more »
Western Australian battery recycling startup, Renewable Metals has raised $8 million in Seed funding to address low levels of lithium battery materials recovery. The round was led the Investible’s Climate Tech Fund, with support from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) through Virescent Ventures, which tipped in $2.5 million, and US VC the Grantham Foundation… Read more »
The coffee cup you used this morning could one day end up something you’re driving over – in a good way. In a first-of-its-kind pilot project in Western Sydney has used recycled coffee cups to create more sustainable roads made from up to 50% recycled materials. The fibres in the cups are an additive that… Read more »
Recycling startup Samsara Eco has raised $54 million in a Series A round as it looks to reduce plastic pollution. Existing backers, including CSIRO’s deep tech fund Main Sequence, Woolworths Group’s W23 and Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Innovation Fund were joined. by new investors Breakthrough Victoria, Singapore’s Temasek, Assembly Climate Capital, DCVC and INP Capital… Read more »
A $10 million program to tackle recycling solar panels has been launched in Victoria. Breakthrough Victoria, a company managing a $2 billion fund set up by the Victorian government to make the state a global leader in innovation, has launched the $10 million Solar Waste Challenge, to invest in solar waste reduction solutions. More than… Read more »
Sometimes a great idea all comes down to design. There are plenty of smartphones in the market, but plenty of people are drawn to the iPhone and pay a premium, because of great design. And so it is for sustainable office furniture startup Recess. The Sydney-based venture launched its new ergonomic office furniture line six… Read more »
It started out as a simple idea that, on paper at least, seemed easy to execute: put recyclables into special bins to reduce landfill. But humans being human has turned recycling into a massive problem, with contamination – ie. rubbish – being put in recycling bins, which leads to the entire contents ending up in… Read more »
A household products company hoping to reduce the plastic waste by reusing containers for everyday products such as shampoo, liquid soaps and laundry wash has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Skip Capital, the family VC run by Kim Jackson, wife of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar. Zero Co has already attracted a series… Read more »
An Australian company that has developed technology to turn wood waste into timber that looks and performs like 100-year-old tropical hardwood has entered an agreement with Bosch to globalise the product. Based in Adelaide and Melbourne, 3RT has spent six years developing its world-first technology in collaboration with Flinders University in South Australia, launching its… Read more »
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