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Engineers at RMIT University have invented energy-efficient bricks with scrap materials, including glass, that are normally destined for landfill.

GUEST OPINION:  Items people mistakenly believe can be recycled, rotten and otherwise wasted food that emits greenhouse gases, and abandoned TVs and computers with toxic substances. It's the stuff that Victoria's mountains of landfill are made of. The amount of waste Victorians generate is expected to grow, harming human health, the environment, and the climate, to say nothing of economic growth.

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Australian fashion tech business Azura Fashion Group has announced a crowdfunding campaign with Birchal to raise capital for further global expansion.

Three RMIT students who launched an ‘Up-Cycle’ marketplace app dominated the recent RMIT Vonex Hackathon – with their innovation setting sights on tackling non-recyclable waste and “taking over” from Facebook marketplace and Gumtree why they say are not doing enough to tackle the waste problem.

PayPal has launched a "digital solution to plastic gift cards", not only saving a stacks of plastic, but presumably creating a nice little earner for itself, too.

TechCollect is asking businesses to increase recycling efforts and create a more sustainable workplace, and to mark 13 December in the diary for Waste Not, Want Not Day.