Cleaner production – a solution to pollution?

Further Reading

Australasian Science

July 2007, pages 29-30
The good oil in olive waste (by Kevin Robards)
Looks at the detection and recovery of antioxidants from olive waste.

Ecos

No. 132, 2006, page 33
Fungi convert waste starch into value (by Geraldine Hinter)
Looks at turning starchy wastewater from a potato chip factory into a food additive using fungi.

No. 132, 2006, page 29
Plantation, paper and milling show how it's done
Summarises the Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council's sustainability action plan.

No. 131, 2006, page 7
Miserly water recycler installed in Melbourne
Describes a laundry water recycling system.

No. 130, 2006, page 5
Ozmotech's plastic-to-fuel solution in demand
Describes the development of Australian technology to recycle plastic waste into commercial grade diesel fuel.

No. 125, 2005, pages 24-28
Closing the loop? (by Steve Davidson)
Reviews domestic and industrial recycling in Australia.

No. 125, 2005, pages 29-30
Garbage miners mean business
Reports on the Australian UR-3R facility to minimise ‘residual waste’.

No. 125, 2005, page 31
Metals: Supremely recyclable (by Steve Davidson)
Discusses the recycling of metals.

No. 118, 2004, page 17
A recycling renaissance? (by Christina Page)
Compares recycling initiatives in Europe, Japan, USA and Australia and the economic payoffs involved.

New Scientist

2 March 2002, page 10
Trashing China (by Charlie Schmidt)
Looks at the result of developed countries exporting electronic waste to China.

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