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25.01.2022 Great move by BHP.

24.01.2022 Australia's competition agency today granted the two authorisations necessary for the implementation of an industry-led stewardship scheme for batteries. Learn more here. We're pleased to have conducted the international research and consultations in Australia's early development of the scheme. MS2 Director Russ Martin also chaired Australia's Battery Implementation Working Group. #productstewardship #EPR #WEEE #battery #batteries... https://www.globalpsc.net//industry-led-stewardship-schem/

22.01.2022 Welcome, Stephanie!

22.01.2022 From GECA: In collaboration with the City of Sydney, GECA is proud to bring to you, Innovations for a Circular Economy! A half-day online symposium on 8 October 2020, streamed live from Customs House, Sydney. ... The amazing writer and comedian, Craig Ruecassel, best known for his work on The Chaser, going through your bins during The War On Waste and the current Fight For Planet A, will be our MC! Join us to hear from our inspiring and expert speakers. Register today -- https://bit.ly/GECAInnovationsForACircularEconomy

20.01.2022 "The rate of biodiversity loss is unprecedented in human history and pressures are intensifying. Earth's living systems as a whole are being compromised." -- UN Convention on Biodiversity Executive Secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema

19.01.2022 Airbus has unveiled its plans for bringing the world's first zero-emission commercial aircraft into service by 2035.

18.01.2022 It was an honour to have worked with Fiona Wain and witnessed firsthand her dedication to sustainable development. Join the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia's Annual Fiona Wain Oration next week. I value these events every year, and always learn something new. #sustainability #sustainabledevelopment

18.01.2022 Patagonia CEO Yvon Chouinard has been saying "vote the a**holes out" for several years, the spokesperson said. "It refers to politicians from any party who deny or disregard the climate crisis and ignore science."

16.01.2022 As a social enterprise, we work to create employment opportunities. Did you know that Resource Recovery Australia also provides a broad range of training opport...unities? Ken (pictured) is one of our forklift operators here at MidCoast; he got his forklift ticket as part of our ongoing staff development. Every dollar you spend with Resource Recovery Australia is invested into reducing waste to landfill and providing employment and training opportunities for the people and places that need them most. See more

16.01.2022 Australia's farmers say the country needs a tougher policy on climate, calling on the Morrison Government to commit to an economy wide target of net zero carbon emission by 2050.

16.01.2022 Gas and groundwater has unexpectedly bubbled up through farmland and a creek near Chinchilla in Queensland sparking contamination fears.

15.01.2022 Glad that we can start having more public discussion about this now.

14.01.2022 To Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Best wishes on this most significant day for the American people! We are together. We will be stronger to face the challenges of our time. Stronger to build our future. Stronger to protect our planet. Welcome back to the Paris Agreement!

14.01.2022 The Australian Government introduced the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill into Parliament today, which incorporates a range of reforms to which we're pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute.

13.01.2022 Australia’s Environment Minister Sussan Ley MP launching the Australian #circulareconomy Hub today. Thanks to Planet Ark for the invite, and best wishes on a great initiative. Great to see friends and collaborators, old and new, in person at the Opera House.

12.01.2022 "The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet yet despite its size it could have easily slipped by Sydney's coast unnoticed."

11.01.2022 A coronavirus recovery that prioritizes the environment could generate $10 trillion a year, according to a report from the World Economic Forum.

11.01.2022 Excellent Q&A with our former PM on how: 1. Moderates / Independents will continue to vote against the LNP due to lack of a national climate/energy policy and the Coalition’s perceived lack of respect for women. 2. Voters understand that lower energy prices are due to growth in renewables. 3. The private sector is showing greater leadership on climate change and energy than the current government.

11.01.2022 "Another hatchling that weighed just 27 grams, or less than one ounce, had ingested 119 separate pieces of plastic that totaled 1.23% of its body weight."

09.01.2022 I’ve been saving this incredible gift from an especially-valued client for a special occasion worthy of this premium vintage. Tonight, we have one as the US voted in record numbers for good, decent people that we hope will make the US healthier and more credible, and restore some sense of decency. These voters helped to elect the first woman and first female person of colour as Vice President, and who will become the highest-ranking woman in US political history. May they make the US worthy of greater respect and look after the well-being of Americans as the country has an opportunity to heal. As I resume some strategy work for my organisations and hold my kids close, I raise my glass to good people that take action to make the world a better place.

08.01.2022 A big win for the hydrogen economy! UNSW engineers have discovered a new way to make ammonia 100% renewable. Using air, water and renewable electricity, this... ‘green’ ammonia could solve the problem of efficiently storing and transporting hydrogen. Read more: unsw.to/renewable-ammonia

07.01.2022 Big business is increasingly saying no to coal and yes to renewables. In a dramatic reversal, one of the world's biggest makers of coal-fired power plants will exit the market.

06.01.2022 The results from biochar use in Singapore are especially encouraging; we’ve been following this for a client.

05.01.2022 Myth busted!! Koalas alive and well in Kiwarrak after Hillville fire The Forestry Corporation has rejected reports suggesting that there has been a 100% decline... in koalas in the Kiwarrak area due to the Hillville fire. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation says it has confirmed so far eight healthy koalas have been found during surveys following the wildfire in the Kiwarrak State Forest, with further comprehensive surveys still underway. Senior Ecologist Chris Slade said the koalas had been observed in Kiwarrak State Forest during targeted searches immediately following the fires in collaboration with local wildlife care groups. Kiwarrak State Forest was impacted by the Hillville fire in November 2019. As soon as the immediate fire threat passed, we took a range of steps to support impacted wildlife including adding water points and undertaking koala surveys with sniffer dogs, Mr Slade said. Between late November and early December, Forestry Corporation spent five days carrying out searches with koala detection dogs, finding six koalas and collecting multiple pellets, indicating more koalas were present. Further koala sightings and pellet records have also been detected in surveys over the past three months. A motion detection camera, known as a critter cam installed above a wildlife drinking station, snapped one koala. The survey results show that koalas are still living in fire affected areas. The results also show that it helps to use multiple survey methods to detect koalas, which can be very hard to spot in the tree tops, Mr Slade said. Bronwyn Ellis, Forestry Corporation Ecologist for the Taree area, has been working closely with Koalas in Care, who assessed photos of each of the individual koalas found in the forest to advise of any care needs. Encouragingly, all the koalas spotted appeared to be uninjured and not in need of care when assessed. Koalas are a solitary species with a large home range, and it is not unusual for one koala to occupy up to fifty hectares, so to find eight koalas so far in this forest following the fires was extremely encouraging and heart-warming, Ms Ellis said. Mr Slade said Forestry Corporation was carrying out a comprehensive landscape-scale assessment of koala occupancy in the north coast’s State forests in collaboration with the NSW Department of Primary Industries Forest Research Branch (DPI Forestry). This assessment uses call-detection technology, which has been successfully used since 2015 to carry out a landscape-scale assessment of koalas by recording the bellows of koalas during mating season. Surveys for this program are due to commence again this spring, Mr Slade said. The Kiwarrak State Forest near Taree is managed by Forestry Corporation for sustainable timber production as well as conservation and public recreation.

05.01.2022 With 4.5 metre waves forecast in coming days, authorities are racing to protect ecologically sensitive sites from about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil spilled by the MV Wakashio.

05.01.2022 The Australian Senate has supported a motion which condemns the use of "bodgy" research to attack sustainable forestry. That "bodgy" research, produced by a group of UTas scientists has been retracted due to significant errors.

03.01.2022 This is significant.

03.01.2022 Academic anti-harvesting paper withdrawn due to errors A scientific paper that was the basis of an opinion piece by Professor James Kirkpatrick claiming that ti...mber harvesting makes forests more flammable has been withdrawn from academic publication because it contains errors. Source: Philip Hopkins The peer-reviewed paper, written by Professor Kirkpatrick, Suyanti Winoto-Lewin and Jenny Sanger from the University of Tasmania’s Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences, has been retracted from the MDPI journal Fire, MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Australia) said in a statement. The paper formed part of the platform of an opinion article by Professor Kirkpatrick published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers in May. Co-authors of the opinion piece were Dr Sanger, Dr Chris Taylor, Dr Robert Kooyman, Dr Phil Zylstra and Professor James Watson. Following this, Dr Zylstra and the other scientists, but not Professor Kirkpatrick, published a letter to the editor reiterating these claims, that was widely published in Tasmanian and Victorian country newspapers. They strongly attacked a peer-reviewed paper on the role of timber harvesting and fire led by Peter Attiwill, a retired Associate Professor from the School of Botany at Melbourne University. MDPI said the Tasmanian University authors were informed of some errors in the categorisation of forest types by a colleague. The major error was the incorrect inclusion of a category of plantation from a publicly available vegetation type layer. There were also other sites which were incorrectly categorized. The authors reclassified or removed the sites that were obviously incorrect, added new randomly located sites to compensate for excluded sites and added more site pairs, MDPI said. The data were then checked by an independent colleague, an expert in the forest type, who was able to check each identification. The results of analyses of the new data set were sufficiently different to those of the original paper to make it inappropriate to make minor corrections. MDPI said during the reanalysis, a close examination of the data indicated that the outcomes were highly sensitive to variation in fire intensity in a low number of sites. This indicated the need for a larger data set and complementary analyses using GIS (Geographic Information System) techniques. This paper is therefore retracted and shall be marked accordingly. The Fire editorial office (and authors) apologise to the readers of Fire. The paper is retracted to ensure the addition of only high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly communication, MDPI said. MDPI is a member of the Committee on Public Ethics (COPE) and takes very seriously the responsibility to enforce strict ethical policies and standards. Professor Kirkpatrick and co-authors in their opinion article, displayed prominently in the two metropolitan newspapers, claimed that four peer-reviewed scientific studies from four institutions in six years showed clear evidence that logging makes forests more flammable. They said the logging industry funded a contradictory piece on fire behaviour in 2014 using members of a group called the Institute of Foresters of Australia. The paper, led by Professor Attiwill with co-authors employed by the logging industry, denied the role of timber harvesting in fire. In a reply only published online, Professor Attiwill said Kirkpatrick had tried to belittle not only the science of Professor Attiwill’s colleagues, but also their academic standing. Professor Attiwill emphasised that their paper, published in the international journal Conservation Letters, was a collaboration between experts in forest science and forest fire management. I am not a member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia; some of my co-authors may well be. Our research has no association whatsoever with the institute, Professor Attiwill said. Our backgrounds are universities, CSIRO bushfire research and state forest management authorities from Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. Photo: Professor James Kirkpatrick

03.01.2022 We've been noticing a change in the colour of the Bureau of Meteorology's weather balloons recently so we contacted them for an update. They advised that after... consultation with marine researchers a phase out of white balloons in favour of blue ones was implemented to reduce the likelihood of ingestion by seabirds and turtles. There's a specific category in the AMDI Database for weather balloons and their components which include the targets, radiosondes, balloons and plastic clips that connect the pieces together. #AMDI ReefClean Great Barrier Reef Marine Park #TangaroaBlue No Balloon Release Australia Bureau of Meteorology Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment #ReefTrust #marinedebris #balloon #weatherballoon

02.01.2022 "Many large businesses in New Zealand do not currently have a good understanding of how climate change will impact on what they do." -- Minister for Climate Change James Shaw

01.01.2022 Productive discussions with our partners at UNSW SMaRT Centre today, along with a tour of their 3D printer filament manufacturing from #recycled electronics. Other partners include GlobalPSC members Nespresso, TES-AMM and the Vinyl Council of Australia.