by MemberServices | 28 Aug, 2025 | MediaRelease
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA. 28 August 2025 – The Waste and Recycling Industry of Queensland (WRIQ) today revealed the thirteen finalists for ChallengeWaste – Lithium Ion Battery Innovation Challenge, a first-of-its-kind program to tackle one of the waste sector’s most urgent...
by MemberServices | 19 Jun, 2025 | WRIQintheNews
The growing prevalence of lithium-ion batteries across everyday devices has created a serious and costly risk for the waste-and-recycling sector. According to WRIQ data, there are roughly 10,000 to 12,000 battery-related fires annually in Australian waste streams —...
by MemberServices | 28 May, 2025 | WRIQintheNews
Queensland’s peak waste industry body, has launched an international innovation challenge seeking solutions to help reduce the number of dangerous battery fires occurring in garbage trucks and recycling facilities. WRIQ says the sector faced more than 12,000 battery...
by MemberServices | 28 May, 2025 | WRIQintheNews
WRIQ’s CEO Alison Price talks with Ticker News on Australia’s national lithium-ion battery fire crisis. WRIQ has launched an Innovation Challenge to find innovative technologies and ideas to solve this burning issue. Watch the interview...
by MemberServices | 28 May, 2025 | MediaRelease
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA. 28 May 2025 – The Waste and Recycling Industry of Queensland (WRIQ) has launched Challenge Waste – the Lithium Ion Battery Challenge – to find breakthrough solutions that can make an immediate impact in reducing battery fires within Queensland’s...
