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The Queensland Government has proposed certain single-use plastic products to be banned from sale or supply, with a start date after July 1, 2021. This is an exciting step towards eliminating single-use plastics, and makes Queensland a leader of the country.     What Would Be Banned? Plastic straws would be banned from sale or supply under the proposed plastics ban. The government consulted the public and stakeholders, and proposed the following… Read more
More and more people are using keep cups, but about 1 billion disposable coffee cups are still sent to landfill annually in Australia. Recently, reducing this number has been even more difficult, as many cafes refused reusable cups at the height of the pandemic. However, as we come out the other side of COVID-19 (we hope), here are three things customers, cafes, and policymakers can do to reduce the amount of waste we use.     Customers: Show Of… Read more
Plastic was, at first, invented to stop the slaughter of elephants. Elephant tusks were in high demand for ivory-based billiard balls – and to stop poaching of elephants, a new material was needed. But it has gone from a marvel to a menace, in a way few could have foreseen. The Birth of Plastic Plastic was, at first, a marvel. But people soon realised it had unforeseen consequences. The first successful plastic, celluloid, was made in 1869. Howe… Read more
Have you heard of PLA? If you're working outside of the packaging industry, the different types of plastics are probably not what you're discussing over breakfast or even around the boardroom table. So why should you care?   Here are Some Alarming Stats You May not Know: We are in a global plastic pollution crisis - and PLA can help get us out of it. By 2050, there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Conventional plastics are made from… Read more