Recycling in a spin There has been much consternation and discussion in recent weeks about the state of recycling in Australia following the Chinese export ban on foreign waste. Australia’s recycling industry relies on China as a major market for recycled paper and plastics and estimates that about 30% of all our recycling is sent…
PLASTIC UNFANTASTIC Energy 360 is now a member of Bioenergy Australia’s recently created Biogas Taskforce . We have been a member of Bioenergy Australia (BA) for a number of years, helping to encourage the development, and raise the profile of, bioenergy in Australia and we are excited to become a member of this Taskforce. The Taskforce has…
Food waste in Australia Across the world, food waste results in significant social, economic and environmental consequences. An alarming one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is wasted. Large amounts of food waste is sent to landfill, accounting for 8% of all global greenhouse emissions.1 The total cost for food waste…
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FOOD WASTE Biotechnology has provided the basis for innovation within the cheese manufacturing industry for a number of decades. The commercial drivers for innovation in ripening technology have changed significantly over recent years, and although the obvious and long-standing cost-cutting motive still exists, more complex drivers are now at work, and Australian cheese…
SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY Energy360’s Samantha Lamond talks to Jacki Mitchell on Taking Care Of Business about building the business case for biogas, by powering up your waste and turning waste into profit. Samantha talks about the huge value in organic waste streams with the extraction of biogas for use in powering steam boilers or electricity…
Power Up Your Waste RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM WASTE It is widely acknowledged that one of humanity’s greatest present challenges is the amount of waste we produce; less well understood is the value to society of these residual waste streams. The plastic mountains are being harvested and turned into aviation fuel, and for a number of years…
Press Release: Global Partnerships Creates Renewable Energy Solution Australian company Energy 360 Pty Ltd has partnered with ÖKOBIT, German biogas and biomethane plant experts, to establish an Australian-first project management and engineering procurement business model that creates a renewable energy solution so agricultural and food processing plants can turn their waste into profit. The project…
ELECTRICITY 101 I have always had a fascination for electricity – when I finished school I spent a few years deciding whether to take a degree in electrical engineering or accounting. In the end international travel beckoned and I decided accountancy was the more portable option. Now, as we develop Energy360 and our renewable energy…
Power up your waste with Biogas Biogas is a valuable by-product of the process often referred to as “Waste to Energy” in Australia and is the all-rounder among renewable energy options. Simple, clean, cost-effective and waste reducing, biogas is a very reliable source of renewable energy. Only biogas is able to take a waste stream…