Almost all of Australia’s key packaging waste and recycling targets are on the path to failure, Jeff Angel, director of the Boomerang Alliance of 56 group, said after the release of a major review by the industry-based Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO).
Ink manufacturer DIC Australia who was found responsible for polluting a Western Sydney river with purple dye will pay $88,000 towards environmental and clean-up programs and the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s (EPA) costs of investigating the incident.
Pact Group has received $20 million in funding from the Federal Government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative for Recycling and Clean Energy Manufacturing projects to support its investments in world-leading technology which will increase the amount of recycled materials in locally made plastic packaging.
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Envirosuite has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with air-quality monitoring technology specialist Aeroqual to look at joint market opportunities technologies in the waste, wastewater, mining and industrial sectors.
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The ban on single-use plastics, including bags, straws, cotton buds, plates, bowls and cutlery is closer, after the Plastics and Circular Economy Act 2021 passed in the NSW Parliament recently.
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REDcycle has announced that it has become a partnering arm of iQ Renew, an Australian recycler specialising in a pioneering approach to processing soft plastics.
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Citywide has unveiled a glass recycling plant capable of cleaning glass from co-mingled bins and contaminated material that can’t be processed by other plants.
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Security Matters, a company focused on digitising physical objects on the blockchain to enable a circular and closed loop economy, is working in collaboration with LVMH Métiers d’Art to complete a series of R&D projects focusing on the traceability of origin for its raw materials.