In an industry-first, Australia’s leading privately owned plastic raw material supplier, Martogg, has developed a local sustainable solution for a broad range of rigid polypropylene packaging.

UK supermarket Tesco is rolling out a range of beige toilet roll and kitchen towel made from a minimum of 70 per cent used cardboard, with the remainder of the pulp from other recycled paper sources.

Ahead of Easter, Cadbury Australia is making reductions to the amount of plastic and cardboard used in its packaging for Hollow Hunting Eggs and Easter Gift Boxes sold in Australia and New Zealand.

Sanofi’s Consumer Healthcare business has joined PA Consulting and PulPac in the Blister Pack Collective. This follows Sanofi CHC first joining PA and PulPac’s Bottle Collective back in April 2023.

The AIP is joining forces with sustainability software company Empauer, to offer a comprehensive and cost effective life cycle assessment decision package for small to medium enterprises.

An Australian led international team of researchers says it has developed a way of using PE waste as a feedstock and converted it into valuable chemicals, via light-driven photocatalysis.

Dairy producer Fonterra has introduced 'Naked Mozz', a mozzarella wrapped in only basic plastic wrap, a move the company says will spare 330 tonnes of cardboard each year.

A new study with senior executives who work for fashion brands and retailers in the UK, US and Australia, by Aquapak Polymers, show that most expect their business to be "fully circular" within four years.

Join SPE-ANZ members and other industry professionals for a tour of what is claimed to be Australia’s largest end-to-end plastics recycling facility, Circular Plastics Australia (PE) in Laverton North, Victoria.

The first ever meeting of the international members of the Plastics Pact Network convened in South Africa on 23 January, with delegates from around the world meeting in Cape Town.

Amcor has again been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices: Australia Index, being ranked within the 91st percentile of the packaging and containers industry.

Detpak has teamed up with Uber Eats to produce smaller-sized paper delivery bags to cater for small and single orders in Australia and New Zealand, to help reduce the carbon emissions impact.

WA-based Bannister Downs dairy has partnered with Visy to adopt 2-litre plastic milk bottles made from 100% recycled plastics and collected from recycling programs.

The Australian government has funded a co-operative research centre as part of its project to combat plastic waste, which aims to transform how plastic is designed, used, and recycled.

Brunswick’s Wholefoods Unwrapped Collective has been recognised as the Community Champion winner in the Circular Economy Innovation category at the 2023 VIC Premier’s Sustainability Awards.

The $600m Maryvale EfW project has reached a major milestone, signing a multi-million-dollar engineering design agreement with Spanish infrastructure group Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios.