Plastic waste can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose, and even then, it never fully disappears; it just gets smaller and smaller, if left to its own devices. By entering waterways, soils, atmospheres and food chains as microplastic particles, (less than 5mm) this intractable waste is harmful to aquatic, animal, and human [...]

Sludge dewatering seldom makes the headlines environmentally in Australia, New Zealand, or Oceania more broadly, but it is an increasingly vital process in ensuring compliance with statutory groundwater, transport, disposal, and OHS regulations affecting both municipalities and industry. Wastewater before treatment, during which sludge is deposited Concisely defined, it is the practice [...]

An Australasian leader in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment for more than 25 years, CST Wastewater Solutions, is to fully manufacture its rotary drum screen and screw screen/compactors locally to enhance quality and certainty of supply in Australia and New Zealand. CST Wastewater Solutions now removes supply chain disruption at water and wastewater [...]

A leading New Zealand food processing company committed to ongoing excellence in sustainability has become an early adopter of a sludge dewatering technology engineered to cost-efficiently reduce the environmental footprint of food, beverage, and wastewater treatment throughout Australasia. The harvest of fresh ripe red apples just collected from the trees are folded into [...]

An Australian island already noted for its exceptional environmental foresight is taking further major steps to advance its clean, green protection of its precious World Heritage listed natural assets. Lord Howe Island – just 11km long, averaging about 2km wide, with peaks rising to Mt Gower’s 880m – is working towards EPA approvals, flora [...]

Advanced fine screening technology from CST Wastewater Solutions features in a prize-winning wastewater treatment plant project that has transformed the area surrounding it into an environmental wetland wildlife sanctuary and community recreational asset. Logan City Council has revealed increasing wildlife populations are flocking to the recently developed wetlands on the site of the [...]

Sometimes the first indication owners have that their wastewater plant screens need maintenance is when they are subjected to sudden heavy load. This is both the time that they are most needed, and also the time when the worst failures can occur if screens haven’t been properly maintained. Then, the problem becomes all too [...]

Advanced wastewater fine screening technology from CST Wastewater Solutions features headworks designed for easy installation, high screening efficiency and low-maintenance over diverse municipal and industrial wastewater treatment applications encountered locally and globally. The robustly engineered horizontal in-channel rotary drum screening technology has already been proven in some of the notoriously variable conditions of its [...]

CST Wastewater Solutions’ major waste-to-energy project with NH Foods in Queensland has received international recognition this month through finalist nominations in both the energy and sustainability categories of the prestigious 2019 Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Awards. The technology involved in the double IChemE finalist nomination is a far-sighted green energy initiative by [...]

Waste management leader JJ Richards & Sons is proving an environmental initiative in Sydney that eliminates landfill dumping of commercial and retail food waste by transforming it into valuable green energy and fertiliser. JJ Richards and Sons NSW/ACT Operations Manager Benjamin Martis, right, discusses the plant’s waste management 28-ton receiving tanks and processing tanks [...]