The NSW government’s Return and Earn scheme has reached a new milestone, celebrating 12 billion bottles, cans and cartons returned through the network since the scheme began.
“Return and Earn is a NSW...
The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) has published its 2030 Strategic Plan, challenging the status quo to deliver on ambitious national packaging targets.
“In an Australian first, the strategy sets out a pathway for...
More than 14,000 tonnes of soft plastics will be diverted from South Australian landfills every year, thanks to a $20 million investment in advanced recycling technology by the Australian government.
Recycling Plastics Australia...
Integrated plastic packaging manufacturing and recycling company Pact Group has won the Circular Economy Award at this year’s Chemistry Australia Industry Awards for its efforts to recycle “the equivalent of half a...
The research program looks to progress technologies in recycling, bio plastics and carbon capture to address the plastic packaging challenges that faces the food and beverage industry.
The progressive collaboration, backed by FP...
Western Australians can now access Containers for Change Collect, an on-demand service that is expected to increase accessibility to the “widely popular” container deposit scheme.
According to the Western Australian government, Containers for...
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...
