Category: Australia & New Zealand
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Victorian Government Bans Bioplastic Tableware
Victorian Government single-use plastics ban starts from 1 February
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Australia Biofuels Annual Report
Ethanol consumption in Australia is forecast to remain stable in 2022 at only 1.1 percent of the gasoline pool, and biodiesel is forecast to increase moderately from very low levels but remain at less than 0.1 percent of the total diesel pool.
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What to do with Australia’s Bread Bags and Chip Packets?
Trials are under way to find advanced solutions to a notoriously difficult problem. But could a focus on recycling distract from other issues?
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Australian Startup Receives $ 25 Million for Bioplastics Production
A Sydney RSL club is building a factory in Bathurst where wheat offcuts will be turned into compostable packaging in a bid to diversify the club’s revenue streams and become less reliant on gaming.
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Mars Goes Paper Packaging in Australia
Mars Wrigley chocolate bars to be packed in recyclable, reusable or compostable material by 2025
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Coles Group to Launch SECOS MyEcoBag
Coles Group will be launching MyEcoBag™ compostable bag products by SECOS in 770 retail stores across Australia.
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SUP Compostable Alternatives Fiasco in Australia
The Australian example shows that there’s a problem dealing with compostable packaging.
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7-Eleven Goes for BioPak
We are very excited about our new partnership with 7-eleven, supplying the most sustainable packaging to Australia’s favorite grab n’ go venue
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Feedback on Using PLA in Australian City
This article provides feedback on using PLA packaging in the Australian city of Darwin.
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Flinders University Develops New Seaweed Biomaterial
New biomaterial to tackle pollution
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New Zealand Invests in Plastic innovation
Government backs initiatives to cut environmental impact of plastic waste
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Australian EPA Says No to Compostable Packaging
Newly clarified Environment Protection Authority (EPA) regulations state that items such as compostable packaging, cardboard, animal faeces and teabags will not be permitted in green FOGO bins — What’s interesting is the justification they give for the ban; be careful for global jurisprudence.
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New Zealand PHA Startup Receives Government Investment
New Zealand Bio-Innovation company Plentyful has broken ground on a world-leading facility that will transform organic waste into compostable, environmentally friendly plastic alternatives.
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NZ Startup Converts Coffee Waste into Bioplastics
New Zealand Startup combats climate change by turning coffee waste into bioplastic
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Sydney May Ban Fossil Fuels Ads
Ads that promote coal, oil and gas could soon be banned from hundreds of buildings and public spaces in Sydney — I wouldn’t ban fossil fuel ads because this will hurt the revenue stream of media and other players, Instead I would disallow fossil fuel companies of making environmental claims
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New Australian Research Centre for Bioplastics
A new University of Queensland-led training centre is set to become a hub for world-leading research in ‘green’ plastic.
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Great Wrap Develops Potato Waste Cling Wrap
Australian materials science company Great Wrap has used potato waste to develop home compostable cling wrap.
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Great Wrap Raises Millions for Compostable Films
Great Wrap receives international investment to innovate materials and solve global waste problems
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Australian Fossil Ad Ban Campaign
A publicity campaign launched in Australia to pressure the government and media companies to remove advertising for fossil fuels products from public spaces has been backed by leading healthcare organisations — One needs to make the difference between “oil” and “oil companies”.
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New Zealand Sets Out Plans for Agricultural Emissions Pricing
Recently, the New Zealand Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership – He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) – delivered their recommendations on an alternative agricultural emissions solution to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
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Superworms That Can Eat Polystyrene
Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered the common Zophobas morio ‘superworm’ can eat through polystyrene, thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut.
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NSW Bans Bioplastic Bags
Retailers embrace lightweight plastic bag bans, but call for national alignment
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NZ Startup Uses Bees to Make Bioplastics
New Zealand’s Humble Bee Bio is using bees to create bioplastics
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Coles Supermarket Goes Ocean Plastic Bags
Coles using plastic marine waste to make shopping bags
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New South Wales Plastic Bag Ban
Single-use plastic bags to be banned in NSW within days
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Australian Bioplastics Startup Almost Crowd Funded $ 1 Million
So close: Compostable packaging gurus HeapsGood wrap up almost $1m in crowdfunding round
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Startup Raises Cash for Compostable Shopping Mailers
Australian startup raises $ 1.5 million to develop its North American business
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Video Documentary on Australian Compostable Diaper
An innovative trial on the NSW far south coast may have succeeded in finding a solution to one of the world’s biggest waste problems — nappies
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New Zealand Recommends Cautious Approach for Compostable Packaging (FREE)
The Ministry for the Environment has issued a warning about compostable packaging – likening it to single-use plastics. This is a FREE article
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What Happens to the Waste Generated from Australian Elections?
What happens to the waste generated by the Australian elections?
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ExxonMobil Designs CO2 Capture in Australia
ExxonMobil begins design studies for South East Australia carbon capture hub in Gippsland
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Australia Sugar Report
Australia’s sugar production is forecast to increase to 4.45 million metric tons (MMT) in marketing year (MY) 2022/23, from an estimated 4.12 MMT in MY 2021/22.
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University of Sidney on Bioplastics
It seems as if Australian universities are looking to position themselves on bioplastics.
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Australia and India Sign Economic Deal
Australia and India have signed a new trade agreement, the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI ECTA).
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BioPBS Ice Cream Cups in Australia
BioPBS coated ICE CREAM Cups – Now available in Australia
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Australian Environmental Spending
The Australian Government is delivering more than $2.3 billion on new environmental spending including waste and recycling over ten years as part of the 2022–23 Budget.
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CSIRO to End Plastic Waste in Australia
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, will tackle Australia’s plastic pollution challenges, pledging to help Australia reduce its plastic waste by 80 per cent over this decade.
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Deakin University to Build Biofactory in Australia
Deakin launches new BioFactory as part of Circular Economy Accelerator-Organics project
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APCO Report on UN SDG Goals
APCO has just submitted its second bi-annual Communication on Engagement report highlighting the incredible work undertaken in collaboration with our Members and stakeholders to work towards achieving the United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Qenos, Axens and Plastic Energy Partner on Chemical Recycling
Qenos takes Australia one step closer to circular plastics, using advanced recycling technology from Plastic Energy and Axens
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Australia Cheating on Plastic Waste Export Ban
After much praised waste export ban, Australia under fire for shipping plastic trash as ‘fuel’
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Australian Advanced Recycling Technology
Australian National University are working on super enzymes to degrade plastic waste and nylon — ECHO INSTRUMENTS, Technology to Measure & Analyse Plastic Biodegradation
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Australian Government Approves APCO
The Australian Government today gave the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) its tick of approval as an accredited national product stewardship scheme working to ensure that Australia’s packaging can be recycled, reused and kept out of landfill.
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Cassava Bioplastics Marine Degradable Bags Made in Australia
An Aussie company has created a world-first range of biodegradable bags which dissolve in water and cause no harm to the environment when they’re thrown away
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Biodegradation of Novel Bioplastics Study Receives Enormous Coverage
The following study seems to break records in terms of world wide coverage
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Australian Tech Instantly Converts CO2 to Solid Carbon
Researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries
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Australia Dealing with PFAS in Fibre Based Packaging
The problem of PFAS in fibre based packaging and how Australia will deal with it
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Australia Packaging Covenant Review
The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has commissioned an independent review into the co-regulatory framework that underpins the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) 2021 (the NEPM). The review is a process that takes place every five years and is designed to ensure that Australia has an effective system in place to manage…
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Australia Waste, Recycling and Jobs Fund
Queensland recycling investment will help ocean plastic pollution crisis
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APCO Report on Achieving Packaging Targets
Apco Launches Major New Report Outlining Actions Required To Achieve The 2025 National Packaging Targets
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Tasmanian Government Goes Composting
Dulverton Organics project to help manage compostable waste
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Feasibility Study Australian Chemical Recycling
Report on the findings from the joint feasibility study to determine the technical, economic, and environmental benefits of a local advanced recycling industry
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From Clothes to Roads
Diverse partners have come together to create a circular system to reuse the untapped resource of unwanted clothing and textiles.
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Great Wrap Launches Compostable Catering Wrap
Great Wrap has launched its Australian-made compostable catering wrap
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Australian Dairy Sustainable Packaging Roadmap
Today, alongside Dairy Australia and the Australian Dairy Products Federation (ADPF) Federation, APCO is proud to launch the Australian Dairy Sustainable Packaging Roadmap to 2025.
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Banana Fibre Packaging Patented
Papyrus lodges Australian patent application for banana fibre production process for moulded food packaging.
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Australian Recycled Content Label Program Update
APCO is excited to announce the development of a new Program designed to support the increased use of recycled content in packaging.
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New Zealand Biodegradable Gardening Pot
An article on biodegradable gardening pots in New Zealand.
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Australian Startup Develops Infinite Recycling
Australian enviro-tech startup Samsara launches to create infinite recycling and end plastic pollution
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Australian Sugarcane and Bioplastics
Drive around Queensland’s sugarcane regions and you’re driving through untapped potential
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Australian Bioplastic Leader
Two Australian entrepreneurs believe they’re world leaders
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Bioplastics Net Clips Made from Grape Pomace
This seems like a smart bioplastic application
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New Wood Plastic Composite Plant in Tasmania
Timberlink Announces a new Bio Composite plant in Bell Bay Tasmania
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Australian Guide To Promote Recycled Content in Packaging
Apco Launches New Guide To Support Businesses To Use More Recycled Content In Packaging
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Podcast on Latest New Zealand Bioplastics Research
Podcast on the latest biodegradable plastics research in New Zealand.
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EU Product Environmental Footprint Labelling and the Australian Wool Industry
The European Union is prioritising the textiles industry to get fashion on a more sustainable track as part of it European Green Deal strategy
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Australians Create Plastic Sorting Robot
Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
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Jenkins Freshpac Systems to Market Compostable Fruit Sticker in New Zealand
Aotearoa’s leading producer of fruit labels, Jenkins Freshpac Systems, has just been awarded a gold medal in development and creativity for their industrial compostable label
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New Zealand Government Communication on SUP Ban
The Government is to phase out certain hard-to-recycle plastics and six single-use items
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New Zealand Invests in Blue Bioplastics
New Ara Research Hub Gets Funding to Help Bioplastic Startup Kelpn
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Australian National Plastics Plan
The National Plastic Plan outlines our approach to increase plastic recycling, find alternatives to unnecessary plastics and reduce the impact of plastic on the environment
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Australian National Compostable Packaging Strategy
Australian National Compostable Packaging Strategy
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BioPak Launches Compost Connect
Australia’s first ever composting network, Compost Connect, launches to tackle the nation’s food waste crisis
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New South Wales Invests Millions to Tackle Plastic
$356 Million to tackle plastics and waste
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Compostable Packaging Consultation in New Zealand
Compostable Packaging consultation in New Zealand
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Australia MP on Compostable Cutlery
There’s a need for leadership on compostable packaging
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Australia, New Zealand And Pacific Islands Launch ANZPAC Plastics Pact
Australia, New Zealand And Pacific Islands Plastics Pact Launches To Tackle Plastics Pollution With Innovative Solutions
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Australia SUP Ban Web Session
In this session, we cover what impact the National Plastics Plan will have for the phase out of single-use, unnecessary and problematic plastic packaging, and what this means for your business
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Australasian Bioplastics Launches Scholarship Program
Australasian Bioplastics Association launches scholarship program
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Australasian Recycling Label Update
Australasian Recycling Label Program Goes From Strength-To-Strength, Welcoming 500Th Member And A Range Of Iconic Household Brands
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SUP Ban in Australia by The Guardian
National agreement on items covered by ban should provide businesses with certainty and ease consumer confusion
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Australian Action Plan for Problematic and Unnecessary SUP Packaging
Resources to help businesses take action on single use, unnecessary and problematic packaging – check out the action plan to get started today
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Australia to Ban Bioplastic and PLA SU Cutlery
If the Bill is passed, from 1 July 2021, three key single-use plastic items will be banned in the ACT
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Coles, Nestlé, LyondellBasell, Licella and iQ Renew Partner on Chemical Recycling
Coles, Nestlé, LyondellBasell, Licella and iQ Renew announce study into Australian-first for recycling
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TIPA Hires New Sales Director for Australia and New Zealand
TIPA® Compostable Packaging expands into Australian market with expert hire
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Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Ban in Australia
Why Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics are Banned in Australia
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Packaging Industry Reacts to Australia Plastic Plan
Australian Government’s National Plastics Plan Celebrates Apco Projects Tackling Plastic Packaging
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Plastic and Bioplastic Ban in Australia Starts March 1
From March 1, 2021 single-use plastic straws*, stirrers and cutlery including bioplastic will no longer be supplied in South Australia. This is A FREE Article
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Australia Builds Largest PET Recycling Plant
Australia’s largest PET recycling plant now under construction in Albury-Wodonga Construction is now underway on a world-class recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga that will see the equivalent of around 1 billion PET plastic bottles recycled each year.
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Closed Loop Plastic Composting
One company is experimenting with closed lood plastic composting
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NZ Government Moves on Climate Promises
The Government is delivering on its first tranche of election promises to take action on climate change with a raft of measures that will help meet New Zealand’s 2050 carbon neutral target, create new jobs and boost innovation
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Future of Plastics in New Zealand
Unlike other countries, New Zealand’s plastics industry is influenced by three factors that can greatly shape the way we transition to the new economy.
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