The 174 nations including Australia get a big tick for agreeing to develop a global plastic pollution treaty, said Boomerang Alliance director Jeff Angel.
Growing up, Ben Whitehouse always had an affinity with the environment, so much so he wanted to be a ‘bush ranger’ when he was a child. After all, his young mind reasoned, a bush ranger is somebody who looks after the environment. Of course, growing older and being more informed, he realised that those connotations were not what his younger self thought. However, it didn’t dissuade him from thinking it might be a career choice.
The NSW’s government promise to strengthen environmental laws against dumpers are now stronger due to new laws passed in the NSW Parliament on November 25.
TreadLightly is calling on schools to step up for the planet and win prizes for their school by collecting unwanted shoes from teachers, students, and parents over one-week (21-27 March) to help keep shoes out of landfill.
Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said that Australia’s Recycling Modernisation Fund is set to break through the $1 billion barrier.
The City of Melton has announced it will be contracting Recovered Energy Australia (REA) and Solo Resource Recovery (Solo) to divert its landfill waste to be processed into electricity, recover reusable resources and protect ratepayers from the rising environmental and economic cost of landfill.
Gathering reliable data is one of the key ingredients when it comes to the state of play with hazardous waste in Australia. Being a Commonwealth and having various state stakeholders means that when it comes to putting a report together on hazardous materials, the data sets could be better.
B-cycle, Australia’s new national government-backed battery recycling Scheme, has officially been launched to combat one of the nation’s fastest growing waste streams. It aims to redirect 90 per cent of used batteries that currently go to landfill, causing environmental impact and wasting precious resources. Read more