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Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Targets
Posted on March 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource In 2018 Australia established the ambitious 2025 National Packaging Targets. The Targets create a new sustainable pathway for the way we manage packaging in Australia. The four Targets are: 100 per cent of packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable by 202570...
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AUS Gov and CSIRO commit to war on plastic waste in Indo-Pacific – Australia
Posted on March 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: AUS Gov and CSIRO commit to war on plastic waste in Indo-Pacific Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have launched a new $1.3 million partnership to work with Indonesia to tackle plastic...
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Qenos takes Australia a step closer to circular plastics
Posted on March 3, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Article Plastic Energy UK, which specialises in advanced recycling of plastics using its Thermal Anaerobic Conversion (TAC) process and Axens (France), which has developed the leading-edge Rewind Mix process, will support the recently announced Qenos and Cleanaway Continue reading this entry →
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Landmark $260m investment in advanced recycling plant – Australia
Posted on March 1, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource article San Francisco-based Brightmark has developed plastics renewal facilities using advanced thermo-chemical recycling in the US and its process has been proven at full-scale for continuous operation. “The Parkes facility will process 200,000 tonnes of plastic waste, diverting that waste...
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Recycling ‘falling short’ as way to control plastic pollution
Posted on February 25, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource article Plastics production and leakage in the environment have grown by "stunning" amounts in recent decades. But efforts to both limit pollution from those leaks and increased efforts to innovate new technological solutions have not kept pace. Those are some...
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Australians ingest a credit card’s worth of plastic a week – so what’s it doing to us?
Posted on February 23, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Australians ingest a credit card’s worth of plastic a week – so what’s it doing to us? | Marine life | The Guardian Colloquially known as Ausmap, the citizen science project has collected more than 3.5m pieces of microplastic...
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Advancing plastics recycling in Australia
Posted on February 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource: Advancing plastics recycling in Australia Plastics manufacturer Qenos and recycling company Cleanaway have agreed to develop a feasibility study of plastic-to-plastic advanced recycling. The organisations will be looking into how to create a circular economy by recycling up to...
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Freeing Trevor to drive the circular bus – Australia
Posted on February 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource: Freeing Trevor to drive the circular bus - Inside Waste There is no chance we can achieve a Circular Economy by 2025, but achieving the 80 per cent diversion from landfill Target in the National Waste Action plan by...
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Cassava’s single-use bags dissolve in hot water – Australia
Posted on February 17, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste Newssource Cassava Bags Australia has launched a biodegradable single-use bag and liner range, which the company says is non-toxic, 100 per cent plastic-free, and won’t break down into microplastics. Cassava promises that its products will take just three minutes to dissolve...
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Hidden Sea hits 10m ocean plastic bottles milestone Australia
Posted on February 17, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Australian wine brand The Hidden Sea has achieved a major milestone to help remove 10 million plastic bottles from the oceans in just 18 months, bringing it closer to its ultimate goal to remove one billion by 2030. The brand...
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