Australian recycler Visy has acquired the assets of Victorian plastics recycling business Advanced Circular Polymers (ACP), post its collapse late last year.
Located in Somerton in Melbourne’s north, ACP reprocessed plastics from kerbside...
A new $50 million PET plastic bottle recycling plant has opened in Melbourne, coinciding with the start of Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme.
The Circular Plastics Australia (PET) plant is said to be capable...
Planet Ark is encouraging Australians to save themselves money and improve their environmental footprint this National Recycling Week (13-19 November) by reducing food waste to landfill.
The call-to-action comes as research carried out...
Simply Cups is expanding to recycle all paper-based cups, such as take-away soft drink cups, ice cream cups and chip cups.
Since May 2017, Simply Cups has been recycling coffee cups. But following...
The NSW Return and Earn scheme is set to reach the milestone of 10 billion recycled cans and bottles at return points.
Users have earned $1 billion in container refunds since the scheme...
The Andrews Labor Government will create more than 600 new jobs through Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme (CDS Vic), which will reduce the state’s litter by up to half when it begins later...
Construction of a new $40.5 million material recycling facility (MRF) on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland is close to completion.
The construction of the facility, which is set to be operational by the end...
The federal government has launched a new $60 million fund for hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics like shopping bags, bread bags, cling wrap and chip packets.
The funding will support new or upgraded...
