by Shae Miller | Apr 6, 2021 | Plastic Free, Read All, Sustainability
Eco friendly alternative to traditional paper wrap Up to 150, 000km of Christmas wrapping paper is thrown out in Australia each year. That is enough to wrap around the Earth’s equator almost four times! Imagine if we began to add in all the other special events...
by Shae Miller | Jul 27, 2020 | Plastic Free, Read All
Plastic waste on a remote beach in Sri Lanka. Author provided Mirjam van der Mheen, University of Western Australia; Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia, and Erik van Sebille, Utrecht University Great areas of our rubbish are known to form in parts...
by Shae Miller | Jul 24, 2020 | Plastic Free, Read All
A woman sorts plastic bottles at a workshop in Hanoi. The world is being overwhelmed by plastic waste, and companies should do more to address it. EPA/LUONG THAI LINH Sergio Brodsky, RMIT University Discussion of the environment is embedded in our culture as public...
by Shae Miller | Jul 19, 2020 | Plastic Free, Read All
Muxina Konarova, Advanced Queensland Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Australia’s recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling. Some of our waste, like paper or organic matter, can be...
by Shae Miller | Jul 9, 2020 | Plastic Free, Read All
Shutterstock Kim Borg, Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University; Jim Curtis, Research Fellow in Behaviour Change, Monash University and Jo Lindsay, Professor of sociology, Monash University As COVID-19...
by Shae Miller | Jul 2, 2020 | Plastic Free, Read All
Plastic waste washed up on a beach in Haiti. Timothy Townsend Britta Denise Hardesty, CSIRO and Chris Wilcox, CSIRO You might have heard the oceans are full of plastic, but how full exactly? Around 8 million metric tonnes go into the oceans each year, according to the...
