Jun 8, 2017 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive business, Technology/Science, Uncategorised
A British based company has replaced ocean destroying plastic microbeads with milled olive stones in an environmentally friendly hand wash made from ground olive kernels. You can read more about value-adding olive waste in the June edition of Olivegrower &...
Jun 8, 2017 | Australia, Environment, Olive Oil News
Keeping the Sydney Opera House healthy and clean is an act of love by Steve Tsoukalas for the “other woman” in his life. Over the past 12 years, the 72-year-old cleaner and maintenance guru has been responsible for a green cleaning revolution at the Opera...
Jun 8, 2017 | Environment, International News/Trends, Research
A team of ecologists at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in the UK have released a study in which they constructed a scientific model which may be able to predict how Xylella fastidiosa will spread. Study Predicts the Spread of Xylella Pathogen in Olive...
May 31, 2017 | Environment, General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business, Research
Last fall, researchers at Wright State University announced they had found that emerald ash borer can develop from larvae to adulthood on a species of olive tree. Today, that study is published online in the Journal of Economic Entomology.
May 31, 2017 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive business, Research
Waste from the olive oil industry like olive stone ash, ground olive stones, and sludge from pomace oil extraction can be used as effective secondary raw materials in the making of clay bricks and cement paste. Olive Waste Can Be Used to Make Effective Building...
May 31, 2017 | Australia, Environment, Other
Australia is on track to adopt some of the most sophisticated plant pest surveillance technologies in the world after Hort Innovation Australia secured a Federal Government grant and co-investor funding to deliver a $21M plant biosecurity push.