The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a plan to ban problematic single-use plastics including plates, cutlery and thick plastic bags in Western Australia.

Innovative recycling operation Plastic Forests has a new product, now producing plastic fence posts made from used silage film, with the first 500 posts being shipped off to fire-damaged farms in Tumbarumba NSW.

Sunglasses made from plastic recycled from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch have become the first product to adopt a standard designed to clean up the oceans.

Food manufacturer Mars said it would incorporate recycled polypropylene plastic into the primary packaging for some of its popular pet food brands.

Visy and Geofabrics have signed a partnership to use rPET that is not fit for bottle-to-bottle recycling to make sustainable geotextiles for use in the road, rail, and mining industries.

During the last keynote session of the virtual AIP conference, two leaders from companies pioneering reusable packaging discussed the opportunities that come with such systems.

Self-adhesive solutions specialist Herma has committed the company to a carbon-neutral footprint within its sphere of direct influence from 2021.

Coca-Cola Australia said by the end of 2021, it would reduce its use of virgin plastic by 40,000 tonnes (compared with 2017) by using frozen drink cups and lids made from recycled plastic.

The Victorian government is supporting the state’s businesses and organisations to reduce packaging waste while diverting more than 5500 tonnes of waste from landfill each year.

During the keynote session for the third day of the virtual AIP conference, two experts gave an in-depth presentation on the nitty gritty of how to foster a circular economy.

Packaging professionals gathered in a virtual room on Wednesday to thrash out the problems and hurdles that stand in the way of realising a closed loop, circular economy for packaging materials.

Planet Protector Packaging is among 12 international finalists in the inaugural Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2020, which aims to support projects positively impacting the ocean.

Aldi has published its first plastics and packaging progress report, an update on its progress towards its sustainability goals, which include using the ARL on all its Aldi-branded products in the coming years.

Global packaging behemoth Amcor and food and drink processor Nestlé have launched a new flexible retort pouch that is recyclable in existing recycling streams in Europe.

One of the biggest recent increases in contaminated items ending up in kerbside recycling bins are pizza boxes with food scraps. That increase is due to more people eating pizza during the pandemic.

Woolworths has renewed its partnership with TerraCycle to recycle the current line of Disney+ Ooshies, which are collected in special bins located in stores.