Sustainability

The 5 Gyres Institute study finds 5.25 trillion plastic particles weighing approximately 269,000 tons in the world’s oceans.

The European Union is to scrap the Circular Economy package. It wants to replace it with something “more ambitious”.

The PEFC has endorsed the Indonesian Forestry Certification Cooperation Program (IFCC).

NSW Environment Protection Authority is offering a rebate for up to half the value of small scale recycling equipment.

Flexible packaging has a extremely low recycling rate. The two year Reflex project in the UK intends to change that.

For APC signatories, one reward is assistance like this: The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability identifies the strategies for success behind sustainable packaging projects.

The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide may become the new feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form.

EcoCaffe has launched Ethical Coffee Company’s 100% biodegradable coffee pods for Nespresso machines in Australia.

Sydney gets clean

Just two recycling vending machines have collected enough bottles and cans to build a tower 19 times the height of Sydney's Centrepoint Tower.

A scientific team from Blaise Pascal University in France challenges what it sees as ‘misinformation’ and 'not very expert reports and erroneous information'.

The other half of any recycling job is to buy and use recycled paper.

Ultra-high barrier Plantic eco Plastic is being used to give 100% natural Three Bridges pasta extra freshness and give the environment a helping hand.

Nescafe Dolce Gusto and global recycling and upcycling pioneers, TerraCycle, are turning used coffee capsules into new products.

Paper Force and the APP make themselves formal champions of the world's forests via the United Nations Climate Summit's New York Declaration on Forests.

Detmold's I am eco hospitality packaging is made from 100% recycled content, is biodegradable and compostable.

Waste more wisely

As of this week, any Australian business is three easy steps away from gaining bids from up to fourteen waste service providers for their jobs.