Business News Sept 2009

  • Creating Cleaner, Safer Places for Victoria

    Victoria's new litter strategy, Creating Cleaner, Safer Places - Working together to remove litter from Victoria's environment, sets the directions for a coordinated state wide approach to litter prevention and management.

  • Healthcare gets ResourceSmart

    The Victorian healthcare sector aims to reduce the 700,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and 250,000 tonnes of waste it is estimated to generate each year.

  • Films support renewable energy

    The stories behind projects supported by the Renewable Energy Support Fund will be showcased in a series of video clips released over the next few months.

  • Solar park construction begins in Bendigo and Ballarat

    Construction has started on two regional solar parks that will each generate enough renewable energy to provide 150 households with the same amount of solar power generated from a 2 kW individual household rooftop photovoltaic system.

  • Detox Your Home any time of year in Greater Bendigo

    Households from the Greater Bendigo area can now dispose of specific household chemicals for free in an environmentally responsible way at the permanent Eaglehawk Ecocentre Detox Your Home collection point.