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Merlo Coffee set to convert 3 million cups into compost
Queensland icon, Merlo Coffee, has turned up the heat on its goal of saving more than 3 million Merlo takeaway cups from landfill each year, already diverting more than 37 tonnes of organics in 2019 through its compostables initiative. In late 2018, the business...
Australia’s largest compost-based revegetation project delivered
Australia’s largest compost-based revegetation project, by size, has been successfully delivered by NuGrow on the $1.6 billion, 41km Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (TSRC) in Queensland for project contractor Nexus and primary landscaper HL Landscapes. The team is...
Demand grows for compostable plastics
NuGrow is recycling a growing volume of compostable plastics from waste generators such as Merlo, Riverstage and Eat Street Markets as more companies are turning to sustainable food packaging solutions. Over the last 12 months, single use plastics have become a...
NuGrow launches on-site soil screening
NuGrow has launched its latest service – on-site soil screening – in a major win for civil infrastructure contractors, property developers and landscapers facing large volumes of otherwise unusable site soil. Complementing NuGrow’s expanding revegetation business,...
Agricultural trial nets bigger harvest using soil conditioner
A major Queensland-based primary producer has proven the benefits of using soil conditioner to improve crop productivity via a site trial with support from NuGrow. The agricultural leader ran a 14-month trial using a 1.5ha control plot and a 1.5ha plot treated with...
Steep slopes no match for revegetation collaboration
Hinterland slopes on Lamington National Park Road impacted by Cyclone Debbie landslips were a formidable hurdle successfully overcome by a collaboration between TMR, SMEC, McIlwain Civil and McIlwain’s subcontractor NuGrow. The rehabilitation project spanned around 20...
Composting facility a green opportunity for local business
Food manufacturers and retailers, primary producers and earthworks contractors will have easier access to cost-saving recycling technology following approval of a multi-million dollar composting facility. NuGrow recently received final approval from Bundaberg Regional...
Dubai South and NuGrow partnership celebrates Queensland innovation
The landmark partnership between Dubai South and NuGrow is gaining momentum as the two organisations make headway toward launching one of the most innovative environmental initiatives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), delivering waste recycling and land revegetation....
NuGrow delivers massive Aussie landscape transformation
NuGrow’s innovative Hydroganics service is transforming some of Australia’s most extreme construction landscape into native bushland on the $1.6 billion, 41km Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (TSRC) project in Queensland. Hydroganics is a topsoil-free erosion control...