plastic rescue

The great plastic rescue

Bronwyn Voyce is making it easier for small businesses to donate, not ditch, surplus single-use plastic stock. Read More
WWF plastic scorecard

Queensland edges ahead in WWF plastics scorecard

Queensland has advanced its place towards the top of World Wide Fund (WWF)- Australia’s plastics scorecard with the release of a new plan to ban harmful single-use plastics, including disposable coffee cups and lids, cotton buds with plastic stems, and polystyrene packing peanuts.
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QLD single use plastics ban

QLD to ban more single-use plastics

The sunshine state is set to ban plastic microbeads, polystyrene packing peanuts and plastic-stemmed cotton buds by 1 September 2023 as part of a five-year roadmap to phase out harmful, single-use plastics.
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single use plastic

Extra support for plastic phase-out

Businesses across New South Wales are being given a helping hand to transition away from single-use plastics, thanks to a new partnership between the NSW Government and the National Retail Association (NRA).
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national plastics plan

Plastic-free public events in ACT

In an Australian first, the ACT Government has declared public events as ‘plastic-free’ under the Plastic Reduction Act, passed earlier this year. It is also engaging with the community and industry on the phase-out of the second tranche of single-use plastic items from 1 July 2022.
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