Sadleirs Packaging is launching a fully recyclable, 100 per cent polypropylene FIBC with 30 per cent recycled content, for the first time in Australia.

Australian tea producer, Madura Tea, has switched all of its packaging materials that were previously based on metalised OPP to flexible packaging paper from Gundlach Packaging and Koehler.

Tomra Cleanaway has installed Victoria’s first refund point under the state’s new container deposit scheme (CDS), located at Foodworks in Buninyong and operational from 1 November 2023.

The Broadford Mill has introduced an angle board used to protect pallet and carton edges made entirely from recycled paper waste, processed on site at its Victoria facility.

Sydney-based ‘impact investment’ team FP Paradigm has partnered with Future Food Systems CRC in a multi-million-dollar research collaboration with UNSW to develop new food packaging materials.

Edward Kosior, MD of Nextek, will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Plastics and the Circular Economy Conference, run by SPE ANZ and held from 9-12 October in Melbourne.

An RMIT University-led project sees new roads mixed with recycled plastics at ten sites across Victoria. Experts say the move will demonstrate a viable circular-economy solution to the nation.

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is providing free research and development (R&D) support to businesses working in the plastic and recycling sector, with the goal of ending plastic waste.

Pact Group is producing its Sulo household wheelie bins fast than ever, with new automated injection moulding equipment installed at its manufacturing plant in Braeside, Victoria.

Amcor Capsules has launched its new sustainability program, Transparence, which aims to give wine and spirits brands clarity and assurance around sustainability initiatives.

Plant-based supplement producer Lifestream has launched a new range of packaging, produced by Forward Plastics, using sugar cane, with a design by Curious Design Consultants.

In response to the growing concern over single-use plastics' environmental impact, Biotuff is offering compostable produce bags as its "answer to Australia's plastic bag problem".

The Boxed Beverage Company has partnered Tetra Pak to launch Waterbox, which it describes as a sustainably packaged alkaline water, sourced directly from Cottonwood Springs in Victoria.

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is connecting with the waste industry at the Australasian Waste and Recycling Expo (AWRE) held in Sydney this year, from 26-27 July.

Coles and Woolworths have met their immediate obligations under the Clean-up Notices issued by the NSW EPA, with more than 5000 tonnes of soft plastics moved to safe storage.

Perth’s Optus Stadium has joined the fight to save 10c containers from landfill, installing 460 Containers for Change bins through its venue.