Plastic in the ocean
Up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. Every minute, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic enters the ocean. CSIRO Plastic production rates are intensifying and …
Waste and recycling
Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek admitted last year that rather than rising to reach a target of 70% by 2025, recycling rates have remained at about 16% for the previous four …
Hooray for WA on waste
From January 1 2022, single use plastic cutlery, straws, stirrers, plates, bowls, cups, thick plastic bags, polystyrene food containers and helium balloon releases – gone! SA used to be the …
Our waste, our responsibility plan
Australia must now face up to its wasteful and polluting habits of make-take-dispose and take responsibility for the mess.
Democrats Lead on Right to Repair
Appearing before the Productivity Commission, Democrats Right-to-Repair campaigner Adrian Lozancic (aged 19) made a convincing case for reform that would challenge the anti-competitive tactics of big tech. Australians are being …
Australia: a plastic waster
The Mindaroo Foundation WA study of plastics makers, puts a world-focus on the need to massively reduce single-use plastic items that soon become waste. It also shows that per capita, Australia leads …
Oceans of waste
Why is there so much plastic waste in our oceans? Surely its not the litter from parties on our beaches? Surely its not from illegal dumping at sea? The answer is that …
South Australia sets the table without plastics
The South Australian Government has passed legislation to end the sale, supply and distribution of plastic straws, cutlery and drink stirrers. They are the first State to get real and …
Conned by plastic
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle. The message and the three-arrowed logo are world-famous but without serious government action on the ‘Reduce’ and the ‘Reuse’, recycling will remain a sham with stockpiles of plastic huge …
Waste not want not
The Federal Government’s recently announced $190 m fund to stimulate recycling initiatives is needed but it must seriously reduce waste at source and waste going to landfill. Clive Jackson, Democrats …