Waste

With Australia's fuel supply under threat and transport emissions still climbing, biomethane offers a renewable alternative. New research is closing in on making it clean enough to use

Ozempic and other peptide-based drugs create 56 million kilograms of hazardous waste each year. Now, a new water-based method aims to change that

Ammonia released from sewage treatment plants can impact our health and the environment, but it’s taken an innovative way of measuring it to understand the scale of the problem

The Healthcare Carbon Lab aims to reduce carbon emissions in our health sector by measuring carbon-emitting procedures and products, while still delivering quality care

Climate change is the biggest health issue facing the planet. Healthcare professionals deal with the outcomes, but can also be part of the solution

We cannot lead healthy lives if we live in an ailing world and the healthcare sector can do more to help address climate change

By extracting biofuel from agricultural and urban waste, researchers hope to create a low-cost, zero emission transport fuel for the future

How a Melbourne community’s mission to reduce waste is building a kinder and more sustainable society, enabled by social media

Amino acid is the building block of life and researchers are aiming to use them as the basis to chemically produce compostable plastics to help address our worsening plastic waste problem