Cleanaway and Viva Energy have concluded an initial assessment for their planned soft plastics recycling initiative. This marks a significant step towards establishing the first major advanced ...

Plastic pollution along selected Australian coastlines has dropped by 39 percent in a decade, according to research by CSIRO, ...

Soft plastic recycling is returning to select Inner West supermarkets following advocacy from Inner West Council, demand from ...

Four years later, Australia's main soft plastics recycling scheme, REDcycle, collapsed, leaving behind big stockpiles. Food scraps or non-recyclable plastics in recycling bins slash the value of ...

Woolworths is aiming to significantly expand its in-store soft plastics collection trial over the next year, with plans to achieve "full coverage" across 500 stores within the next 12 months. The ...

By PHILIP HOPKINS A MELBOURNE-based company that uses its own innovative technology aims to set up a recycling plant [...] ...

A simple invention by a Sydney-based father of two could help with the problem because it can crush soft plastic volume by up ...

The issue involves the use of the words "ocean plastics" when referring to recycled plastic collected and used in Glad brand ...

The biggest challenge still remains that there is simply not enough soft plastic recycling capacity in Australia to support nationwide collections. “The Taskforce was set up in the wake of the ...

Over 84 speakers have been confirmed for the biennial Australasian Packaging Conference, which will see discussion on the ...

An astonishing 538,000 tonnes of soft plastic waste is produced every year in Australia, so there is massive scope to reduce landfill and environmental damage by ramping up recycling programs.

“Soft plastics are high on the list in our ... "Cleanaway and Viva Energy move forward with plastics recycling project in Australia" was originally created and published by Packaging Gateway ...