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NuGrow Successfully Resolves Legal Proceedings and Advances Sustainability Initiatives
NuGrow welcomes the consent orders handed down by the Planning and Environment Court on Wednesday 18th September 2024 in relation to three long running legal proceedings involving the Department of Environment and Science (DESI) and Ipswich City Council (ICC). The...
NUGROW’S STATEMENT RE PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COURT MATTERS
NuGrow welcomes the Court’s decision to dismiss the State’s application for an interim restrain and the Court’s intervention to bring together the State and Council processes relating to upgrades at our Ipswich facility. NuGrow has been working to incorporate best...
STATEMENT RE ASBESTOS TESTING AT ROCKHAMPTON FACILITY
13 March 2024 The Department of Environment, Science and Innovation has informed NuGrow that some samples collected from our Rockhampton Facility have returned positive results for asbestos. NuGrow is awaiting formal advice from the regulators regarding further...
STATEMENT RE ASBESTOS TESTING AT IPSWICH FACILITY
29/02/2024 | UPDATED: STATEMENT RE ASBESTOS TESTING AT IPSWICH FACILITY On 20 February 2024, testing conducted by the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation with the Asbestos Safety Unit of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland identified a low level of...
NuGrow Operations in the Swanbank Industrial Area
As Queensland’s largest organic waste recycler and compost manufacturer, NuGrow takes its responsibilities to the community and the environment very seriously. We recognise Ipswich residents’ concerns about the impact of unpleasant odours around the Swanbank...
Guide to conducting a waste audit
The National Waste Report provides damning statistics on business recycling: every year over 20 million tonnes of waste are sent to rot in landfill from the Australian industrial and commercial sector – despite estimates that over 70% of that waste could be recycled...
Here’s what a circular economy is all about
So, what’s all the fuss about a circular economy? You might have heard the words ‘circular economy’ being thrown around in recent times, and perhaps wondered what all the fuss was about. The term ‘circular economy’ is not just a...
Five tips to beef up your recycling efforts for businesses
These days plenty of businesses are stepping up their efforts to go green and reduce their impact on the environment. While this is good news, for most businesses, there’s room for improvement when it comes to the way they manage their waste. And one of the easiest...
How businesses can extract more value from their organic waste
Waste is an unavoidable by-product of our modern economy, but the concept of a disposable society is just a myth. Waste never harmlessly disappears – nothing in the universe can be destroyed. Rather, it just changes form. Dumping waste into big holes in the ground is...