Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, ...

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 ...

Plastic recycling has failed – by design. Globally, only about 9 per cent of plastics ever made have been recycled. In Australia, recycling rates for flexible plastics remain near zero, and new ...

Soft Plastic Stewardship Australia (SPSA) and its industry members have been granted an eight-year authorisation by the ACCC ...

Australians are again being reminded of the dangers of throwing rechargeable batteries in kerbside recycling bins, after yet another garbage truck caught fire. The NSW Environment Protection Authority ...

Brisbane, Australia — Soft plastic collection could soon return to Australian supermarkets, following a preliminary green light from the country's antitrust regulator. The Australian Competition and ...

The global recycling company is working with Rio Tinto and extrusions producer Capral on an aluminum recycling collection, processing and smelting loop. Capral describes Sims as playing a critical ...

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), Sydney, and Planet Ark Environmental Foundation, Sydney, have confirmed that Australia’s federal government committed $3 million to support four ...

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 ...

Horsham Rural City Council is to survey residents on proposed changes to household glass recycling bin collections.Waste collection data has revealed ...