A$11.2m in joint federal and NSW funding will expand facilities to process hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics ...

If you cringe at the thought of tossing another bread bag or chip packet into your red bin, brace yourself for some good news. Three years after the collapse of the collection scheme REDcycle, soft ...

A new industry-led soft plastics recycling scheme is gearing up to replace Australia’s failed REDcycle programme, aiming to revive collection, reduce waste to landfill and impose a levy on ...

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Major Australian supermarket retailers have received permission to cooperate to find a solution to plastic film recycling. The retailers had to seek permission from the Australian Competition & ...

A soft plastics recycling plant is expected to open in Australia, turning potato chip bags into oil for reproduction, keeping them out of landfills, as the Moorabool News reported. Australian-based ...

An Australia-wide recycling company has been forced to stop collecting post-consumer plastic film because of a lack of facilities to recycle it. Melbourne-based RG Programs & Services Pty Ltd, which ...

We’ve all been told to cut back on waste to help prevent environmental crisis on Earth. Reducing waste helps reduce the need to spend time and energy digging up fresh materials, and helps reduce the ...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has proposed a new industry-led scheme to collect and recycle soft plastic packaging from consumers. The voluntary scheme would be run by the ...

The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC), along with the Queensland (Australia) Government, have announced plans to provide equal funding totaling more than $600,000 to help in the construction of a ...

Milka, one of Mondelez’s European chocolate brands. Credit: Monticello / Shutterstock Mondelez International has invested in a recycling technology business in Australia, alongside packaging ...

By bricking your plastic, the company claims it’ll no longer jam recycling equipment the way individual plastic bags often do ...