The Coca-Cola Australia Foundation (CCAF) has teamed up with Earthwatch to tackle marine pollution and rejuvinate the Lower Gulf of Carpentaria. The $600,000 partnership will see Earthwatch, in conjunction with the Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation (CLCAC) and recycling group Plastic Collective, train 20 CLCAC Indigenous Land and Environmental Rangers to manage their ‘Wetlands not […]
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Nestlé have partnered with Australian recycler iQ Renew for an innovative solution to soft-plastic recycling. The company are set to launch a trial which would see soft plastics collected from 100,000 homes via kerbside recycling, before being sorted and processed. It will initially involve 2,000 households, before it’s rolled out to the remainder later this
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PepsiCo and Clean Up Australia have partnered on a three-year campaign to drive soft plastic recycling. The company are investing $650,000 in the program, dubbed Greening the Green, to educate consumers on soft plastic recovery. According to the most recent Australian Plastics Recycling Survey, less than 10 per cent of the 3.4 million tonnes of
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In less than three years, a single initiative has saved more than ten million coffee cups from landfill. Formed in 2017, Simply Cups launched with the aim of diverting used paper coffee cups from landfill and up-cycling them into new products. And while making great tracks on their own, it was when they partnered with
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Ferrero have been named first in the World Wildlife Fund’s Palm Oil Buyer’s Scorecard. The company achieved a near-perfect score of 21.5 out of 22, taking out the top ranking of the 173 companies assessed. The scorecard evaluates major retailers, consumer goods manufacturers and food service companies (including a diverse range from L’Oreal to McDonald’s
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In what will be welcomed news to consumers mindful of their environmental impact, Glad has now become more sustainable. The brand have partnered with soft plastic recycling program REDcycle, run in Coles and Woolworths stores, where customers can now recycle both Glad wrap and snap lock bag products. Neither product contains PVC, allowing for it
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Australian and New Zealand companies have been named among the finalists for the WorldStar Packaging Special Awards. Run by the World Packaging Organisation, one New Zealand and three Australian companies are among the nominations. They include Plantic RV skin packaging materials, nominated in the President’s Award. Woolworths’s bakery plant fibre tray in the Sustainability award,
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futurThe future for convenience stores is tech-focussed, customised and environmentally sustainable according to research group Nielsen. Releasing a summary of their top seven predictions earlier this month, Neilsen’s SVP of retail and US industry relations Jeff Williams has set out the seven trends he believes will shape the industry’s future. Among his top picks is
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Quality of Life service Sodexo are taking the initiative on food waste, tackling the issue by pledging to salvage 50 tonnes of food from being wasted. The company have partnered with online food surplus site Yume and hope to meet their target over the next six months. Sodexo had previously purchased 65 tonnes of surplus
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Coca-Cola Amatil has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Waste Management and Resource Recovery Awards for producing Australia’s first carbonated soft drink bottles made from 100 per cent recycled plastic. Australian Beverages Group Managing Director Peter West said the finalist position recognised the world-leading performance of the company’s technical team, based in Sydney,
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Unilever, owner of brands including Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton and Omo has announced ambitious new commitments to reduce its plastic waste and help create a circular economy for plastics. Unilever has confirmed that by 2025 it will halve its use of virgin plastic, by reducing its absolute use of plastic packaging by more than
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Victorian businesses are being urged to prepare ahead of the state-wide ban on lightweight plastic shopping bags. The ban will include compostable, degradable and biodegradable plastics and is due to commence from 1 November 2019. This new law will apply to all retailers and suppliers regardless of size or type — from fast food outlets
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Finish Australia launched its national water-saving campaign, #FinishWaterWaste, in partnership with Rural Aid and National Geographic at the spectacular Bondi Icebergs in Sydney this morning. The awesome activation featured the Bondi Icebergs swimming pool converted into Australia’s largest kitchen sink, with the iconic Bondi Beach in the distance. The campaign aims to drive awareness of
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