The Albanese Government must urgently introduce packaging reforms or risk the collapse of Australia’s plastic recycling sector and face millions of tonnes of plastic waste continuing to pollute the environment,
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Businesses back 2030 agenda to drive change in plastics system
Businesses representing a fifth of the world’s plastic packaging market are backing a bold new action plan from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to accelerate the shift towards a circular economy for plastics.
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What’s happening with packaging regulations in Australia?
Despite previous pledges to progress packaging recovery reform there is little real progress and plenty of risks. Waste lobby association Reloop is building a Packaging EPR Dialogue. A process to build
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Strong plastic recycling industry needed
Australia’s recyclers, resource recovery companies and brand owners placing packaging on market have joined forces to commission an evidence-based analysis demonstrating the urgent need for packaging reform and the economic, environmental and social benefits of Australian recycled plastic in packaging.
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Coles and Woolies come to party for soft plastics removal
Coles and Woolworths have successfully removed more than 4,000 tonnes of soft plastic stockpiles across NSW with more than 90 per cent of the material now on track for recycling rather than landfill. This
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Compostable plastics and the 2025 targets
By Dr Ross Headifen
In 2018, the federal government set out the 2025 plastic packaging targets for industry to try and meet. Its top two targets were:
100 per cent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging.
70 per cent plastic packaging being recycled or composted.
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Boomerang Alliance calls for packaging reform ahead of election
The Boomerang Alliance, made up of 55 NGOs, is calling on all parties and candidates to commit that in the next Commonwealth Parliament they will support measures that reduce packaging wastes and plastic pollution.
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Microscopic helpers recycle nylon waste
A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together with the company Novonesis to develop a bacterium that “eats” individual building blocks of different types of nylon and converts them into value-added products. The results of this research will help improve nylon recycling. The study has just been published in the journal Nature Microbiology.
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55K fine for fire in medical waste machine
A fire in a machine processing medical waste at Dandenong South has cost the company running it nearly $55,000 for breaching a licence condition from EPA Victoria. EPA charged Cleanaway Daniels
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Masterfoods trial new packaging on iconic tomato sauce packs
MasterFoods has announced a trial of new paper-based packaging for its MasterFoods Squeeze-On Tomato Sauce packs, which can be recycled via traditional kerbside recycling.
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