Category: Australia & New Zealand
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APCO Report 2020
The 2019/20 Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) Annual Report.
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Australian Scientists and Artists Partner on Blue Bioplastics
Artists help scientists apply seaweed plastic into everyday life
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New Zealand Combines PLA and Wool
Serial Kiwi inventor banking on corn starch and wool combination to save the wool industry
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First Australian Recycled and Recyclable Bread Bag Tags
In an Australian first, Tip Top has announced a move to more sustainable packaging, releasing 100 per cent recycled and recyclable cardboard bread bag tags, designed to give you the same great Tip Top freshness
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National Product Stewardship Investment Fund Invests in Waste Management
Australian National Product Stewardship Investment Fund Invests in Waste Management
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New Zealand Decarbonisation Fund
New fund launched to reduce carbon emissions from coal and gas.
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Australia First Zero Carbon Streetfood Kitchen
Australia’s first zero-carbon streetfood kitchen launches in melbourne
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Government Issues First Bioplastic Product Recall
The first bioplastic product recall that I know of. What a fiasco and how embarrassing! The fossil industry will probably smile when they read the reason.
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Australian Government on Plastic Packaging
Government welcomes further action on plastic packaging
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Carbon Neutral Milk in New Zealand
Danone’s New Zealand Karicare milk formula brand commits to carbon neutrality.
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Australian Recycling Campaign
Today marks the launch of Check It! Before You Chuck It, a two-year national campaign to educate Australians about sustainable packaging and inspire positive recycling behaviours.
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First New Zealand Bioplastic Milk Bottle
New Zealand’s first plant-based milk bottle to launch.
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New Zealand Needs Biopilot Plant
Missing the biopilot bridge between science and commercialisation.
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Kiwis Adapt to Packaging Trends in China
Adapting to changing consumer behaviour in terms of food packaging in China. What is New Zealand doing?
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University of Queensland and Bioplastics
How the School of Chemical Engineering from The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia is looking at bioplastics
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Selling Plastic Items is Illegal
South Australia’s laws mean that selling, supplying or distributing a “prohibited plastic product” will be illegal.
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Australian Solution for Cotton Recycling
Cotton waste composter uses earthworms to turn waste into high-grade fertiliser
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Australian Recycling Labelling Fiasco
What’s going on with recycling labels in Australia?
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South Australia Bans SUP
South Australia has become the first state to ban single-use plastics in Australia, but the new rules will not come into effect until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Exiting the Bottled Water Industry
Australian organisation exits the bottled water industry …”to reduce the impact that single-use bottled water has on the planet, well, we have no other option but to leave it behind.”
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Australian Food Packaging Trends
Five most important trends for the food packaging sector in Australia
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Food Industry Against New Zealand Container Return Scheme
Beverage prices to jump under container return scheme design.
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UK Sends Waste to Energy Technology to Australia
First of its kind export to Australia.
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1 Bln $ to Transform Australian Recycling and Waste Industry
The Morrison Government will commit $190 million to a new Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) that will generate $600 million of recycling investment and drive a billion-dollar transformation of Australia’s waste and recycling capacity.
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Producing Sugarcane Bioplastics in Australia
Sugarcane regions urged to look at producing bioplastics, but viability a concern.
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Future of Recycling in Austalia
The NSW Government recently conducted a survey on recycling and plastic waste.
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Can Corona Revive SUP Bags in New Zealand?
The Covid-19 crisis could be a big setback to progress on eliminating plastics, a rural expert has warned.
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Australia to Review Waste Storage Laws
A review of Victoria’s dangerous goods laws has been appointed to answer the state’s recycling and waste crisis.
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Australia to Change Attitude to Waste
Australians must start treating waste as a resource rather than a problem, says recycling science expert Professor Veena Sahajwalla.
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Australian Strategic Plan to Deliver 2025 National Packaging Targets
Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environment Management, The Hon Trevor Evans MP, and the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), today launched ‘Our Packaging Future’, the new strategic framework outlining how Australia will deliver the 2025 National Packaging Targets.
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Can Recycling be Sustainable in Australia?
We’ve all seen the pictures: the giant island of rubbish in the ocean, marine animals with plastic around their necks and streetways blanketed in single-use bags, showing the villainous role plastic has on the world’s habitats.
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Sustainable Australian Fashion
Australian labels rewriting the rules by taking a stand for sustainability.
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Reusable Takeaway Packaging Campaign in New Zealand
Single-use takeaway packaging harms both people and the planet, writes Kate Hall. The Takeaway Throwaways campaign exists to change this. The waste conscious consumer’s nightmare: throwaway coffee cups, takeaway containers, plastic cutlery, condiment sachets and those scary soy fish. They’ve become normal in today’s society, but do they have to be? Takeaway Throwaways, a new…
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Plastic Pledge in Australia
Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley and the Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management Trevor Evans today congratulated companies and Students for stepping up with key commitments at the closing of the first ever National Plastics Summit.
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New Zealand Questions Compostable Plastics
The surging consumer anxiety around the downstream effects of plastics has led to a huge increase in single-use plastic items or packaging on display labelled as “biodegradable”, “compostable” or “home compostable”.
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Pact, Cleanaway and Asahi Beverages Build New Recycling Plant in Australia
Pact, Cleanaway and Asahi Beverages announce intention to jointly develop a plastic pelletising facility to close the loop and contribute to a circular economy.
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New Zealand Microplastics Comes from Textiles
An investigation into microplastic pollution in Auckland’s waterways has suggested it’s not broken-down litter, but tiny fibres from our washing that are likely causing the biggest problems.
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Kelp Bioplastics Awarded in New Zealand
Abel Goremusandu was working the graveyard shift in a Christchurch factory when he hit on an idea.
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Australian National University Goes Carbon Negative
Australian university promises ‘carbon negative’ footprint as v-c reflects on a summer of fire, ice and virus.
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BioPak Develops Packaging Using Sugarcane Pulp
New South Wales-based packaging specialist, BioPak, has developed a sustainable alternative to conventional plastic packaging, which delivers a positive environmental impact.
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New Zealand Retailer Finds Alternative to Shopping Bags
Countdown, which has 180 stores across New Zealand, introduced the plan . Customers can purchase the reusable 18.4 litre baskets for just $9.60. They’re made from scrap resin that has been ground down and re-used . Countdown expects the move will cut out 350 million bags every year.
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Licella and BioLogiQ Go For Chemical Recycling in Australia
Licella and BioLogiQ join forces to accelerate commercialisation of Cat-HTR™ technology in Australia, to chemically recycle post-consumption plastic that would otherwise not be recycled.
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First National Plastics Summit in Australia
Environment minister Sussan Ley says consultation with states and industry will look at ‘innovative’ ways for dealing with the issue.
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Bioplastics to Solve Invasive Algae in New Zealand
An out-of-the-box approach to a pest threatening to devastate native fish stocks in some of the South Island’s most iconic rivers has been developed by a young Kiwi entrepreneur.
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New Zealand Biobased Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM), including 3D and 4D printing, encompasses some of the most promising technologies currently available. News stories regularly appear featuring exciting creations or innovations from houses to human hearts, all made possible with AM technologies.
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Air New Zealand Trials Edible Coffee Cups
Air New Zealand has begun trialling vanilla-flavoured edible coffee cups for customers in the air in a bid to reduce waste.
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New Zealand Chicken Producer Offers Free Return Composting Service
A New Zealand commercial organic chicken producer is taking the management of its packaging a step further, offering a free return composting service.
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New Zealand Research Funding For Potential Bioplastic Plant
Research that could lead to a bioplastics plant being built in Marton, potentially creating hundreds of jobs, has received a $380,000 boost from the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund (PGF).
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Australian Retailer Moves To Eliminate All Waste Going to Landfill
The brand is trialling a zero waste strategy in an effort to become Australia’s most sustainable supermarket.
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Australian PM Calls For Global Plastic Policy at UN
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pushing for a new commercial model for global recycling in a call at the United Nations that also urges more action to clean up the world’s oceans.
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Australian Billionaire Wants Plastic Producers To Pay Financial Contribution
Mining billionaire’s initiative would see manufacturers of virgin plastic pay premium for doing so
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Indonesia Sends Back Plastic Waste to New Zealand, US, UK, Belgium and Spain
Indonesia has vowed to send back contaminated plastic waste – in a move some say exposes New Zealand’s “dirty secret” of shipping used, low-grade plastic offshore.
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Indian Appliance Company Buys Australian Biodegradable Disposables Company
Kitchen appliances maker TTK Prestige Ltd said on Friday it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Australia’s Ecolife International Pty Ltd.
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Australian School Bans Non Recyclable or Compostable Waste
Students will have to take home any waste that is not recyclable or compostable.
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Australian Victorian Government Investigates Use of Hemp Including For Bioplastics
The Andrews Labor Government has convened a cross-party taskforce to investigate the industrial use of hemp and identify opportunities to grow the industry and create jobs for regional Victorians.
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New Zealand Missed The Bio-Economic Wave 20 Years Ago
Apparently, New Zealand is not the sharpest tool in the box when it comes to bio-economy.
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How To Increase Composting in Australia
With all the recent discussion about plastic exports, it’s easy to forget that organics remains our single largest recycling opportunity, writes Rose Read CEO of the National Waste Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC).
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New Zealand Mayor Clashes With Cosmetic Company Sephora Over Waste Disposal
Matthew Tukaki, Executive Director of the Council and Chair of the Auckland District Council has called on Sephora to answer for accusations of dumping of materials into the drains on Queen Street.
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Australian Lawsuit on Biodegradability and Compostability Claim
Woolworths has seen off a legal challenge from the consumer watchdog after a federal court judge found that a range of biodegradable plates and cutlery could turn into useable compost within weeks.
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New Zealand Turns Food Waste Into Bioplastics
An ingenious new solution being engineered at the University of Canterbury (UC) aims to turn food waste into valuable chemical components that could be used to make bioplastics.
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Australian Firm Gets Oxo-Biodegradable Trademark
A small Australian company has received approval for the nation’s first certified trademark for oxo-biodegradable plastic products.
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Australia and the International Waste Management Fraud
Australia is in the middle of a media storm regarding their waste export.
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Will Australia Revolutionise the Bioplastics Industry?
Gene-editing sugarcane for use in renewable energy and bio-plastics could help secure the industry’s future.
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Fisherman on a mission to produce marine friendly plastic-alternative
This article was published on voxy.co.nz A fisherman from Nelson who has spent the last five years working in the ocean has witnessed first-hand how widespread New Zealand’s plastic problem is. Mohi Healey consistently finds plastic rubbish at sea even in remote parts of Kiwi waters. For the last few years, he’s been thinking that…
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New Zealand Is Gaining Interest in Bioplastics
Article published in New Zealand newspaper that New Zealand should look at bioplastics to create a new industry.
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Are Australians Getting Closer to Biodegradable Computers and Semiconductors?
Australian National University scientists have invented a thin, bendable semiconductor that is also biodegradable.
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Australian Institute of Packaging Teaches Sustainable Packaging Design
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will give a sustainable packaging design course covering bioplastics.
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Australia Will Convert Plastic Waste into Fuel
Australia has just opened a new waste conversion plant in Sydney that will convert landfill into fuel.
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Can Bees Disrupt the Plastics Industry?
A New Zealand Biotech Start up believes the Australian masked bee may hold the secret to replace plastics.
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New Zealand Plastic Packaging Declaration … Greenpeace: It’s Rubbish
Local and international businesses commit to using 100 % reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging in their New Zealand operations by 2025 or earlier. Greenpeace believes it’s rubbish.
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Australian Teenager Develops Bioplastics from Shrimps
Fifteen-year-old Angelina Arora from Sydney Girls High School developed a biodegradable plastic made from prawn shell and sticky protein from the silk of silkworms.
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Australian technology for super high oleic safflower oil
GO Resources Pty Ltd (GO) – a new Australian Cleantech company – has entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to commercialize its technology to produce super high oleic safflower oil (SHOSO) for the high-value industrial oil market.
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Australian Bioplastic Waste Management in China
Cardia Bioplastics selected to supply bioplastic waste management bins & kitchen waste bags to China Nanjing Jianye District.
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Australia and Bioplastic
Australia: not to be forgotten as a key area for bioplastics development and expansion in the Southern hemisphere with players like Cardia and Plantic.
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