What seems like a stylish wooden bench amongst a garden of flowers or herbs by daylight could be revealed to be a plant feeding compost maker by moonlight.
Waste and Recycling
ACT Container Deposit Scheme celebrates fourth birthday with big wins
The ACT Container Deposit Scheme is celebrating its success for the fourth year running. Thanks to the tremendous effort of the community, over 181 million containers have been returned through the scheme’s network of return points – that’s more than $18 million in refunds back in the hands of the community.
Sustainable Office Solutions: finding new homes for your office furniture when you move out
Sustainable Office Solutions was created to limit the amount of perfectly good office furniture going to landfill.
The secret life of plastic
Nowadays, you just can’t get through even one day without encountering plastic in some form. Grocery bags, coffee cups, even clothing – plastic is everywhere.
But it hasn’t always been this way.
Reuse is brewtiful: beer can clip circular economy scheme expands to SA and WA
Hospitality and liquor business Endeavour Group (owner of BWS and Dan Murphy’s) has announced that they are raising the bar on the reuse of the clips used in their beer cans with an expansion of the initiative to South Australia and Western Australia already underway.
How to donate your preloved items and reframe how you think about waste – from “warehouse of uniqueness” Reverse Garbage CEO Kirsten Junor
Passionate long term fans of Reverse Garbage – the inner west Sydney mecca for people who love to reuse discarded materials – will love its new home nearby at 30 Carrington Road. The new digs will offer a feast of creative opportunities. From classes to makers’ spaces and even corporate events. Located amidst other artistic…
Canadian coffee pod company fined $3m for greenwashing
Keurig’s insistence on claiming unrealistic recyclability levels has led the company to incur a $3-million fine and an order to change their packaging.
Australians face “significant and unnecessary barriers” to Right to Repair
The results of a Federal Productivity Commission inquiry into Right to Repair laws in Australia released last week found that there are “significant and unnecessary barriers” to consumers’ Right to Repair.
Sustainable Stripout – a company with solutions and not profit in mind
It’s no secret that perfectly functional office chairs and desks are often landfilled at the end of commercial office leases.