Recycling

The Age: These common plastic items can’t be recycled, but everyone throws them in the wrong bin anyway
Recycling
2 February 2026

The Age: These common plastic items can’t be recycled, but everyone throws them in the wrong bin anyway

Some plastic can be recycled via the kerbside bins, but a lot can't. Are we sorting plastic right at the source?

♻️ Grant Alert: Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund  (Round 6)
Grants
13 January 2026

♻️ Grant Alert: Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund  (Round 6)

Looking to boost recycling capacity, improve material quality, and create circular economy jobs?

🌱 Funding Alert: High Priority Infrastructure Grants Tasmania
Grants
8 January 2026

🌱 Funding Alert: High Priority Infrastructure Grants Tasmania

Looking for funding opportunities to support your NSW FOGO project?

The case for Packaging Reform in 2026
Circular Economy
7 January 2026

The case for Packaging Reform in 2026

2026 is upon us. Have we achieved the national 2025 Waste Targets? Government intervention has not moved the needle yet. It is time for a mandatory EPR scheme.

NSW Plastic Action Plan – hurry up… please
Landfill
26 December 2025

NSW Plastic Action Plan – hurry up… please

Some plastic makes our lives easier and safer. Some don't. But all too often, we continue using such items long past the time we've agreed they are unnecessary.

Sircel’s woes expose product stewardship failures
Circular Economy
19 November 2025

Sircel’s woes expose product stewardship failures

Australia’s largest solar panel recycler, has entered administration. A mandatory product stewardship scheme could have prevented that.

National Recycling Week 2025: Holding Government and Industry to Account for a Circular Future
Policy
14 November 2025

National Recycling Week 2025: Holding Government and Industry to Account for a Circular Future

To turn ambitious recycling targets into lasting circular economy results, Australia’s recycling success should depend more on regulation and government leadership and less on consumers and corporate goodwill.

Agreeing on plastic
Landfill
10 November 2025

Agreeing on plastic

The burning issue isn’t how much plastic we make or use – it’s how much escapes into the environment. Global efforts such as the UN Plastics Treaty should prioritise building and funding effective containment systems to stop plastic leaking into nature. Actions to reduce plastic production should follow suit.

Charges and Surcharges – using price to drive down landfill
Landfill
4 November 2025

Charges and Surcharges – using price to drive down landfill

We should remove taxes on things we want and instead put them on things we don’t want. Tax the things we want less of and remove taxes on things we want more of. This should apply to products, services and... waste.

♻️ Grant Opportunity: Resource Recovery Boost Fund (Queensland)
Grants
30 October 2025

♻️ Grant Opportunity: Resource Recovery Boost Fund (Queensland)

Looking for funding opportunities in Queensland?

New Grant Opportunity: Market Accelerator (VIC)
Grants
14 October 2025

New Grant Opportunity: Market Accelerator (VIC)

Looking for funding opportunities to support your VIC project?

♻️ Grant Opportunity: Go FOGO Grants (Round 5) 
Grants
3 October 2025

♻️ Grant Opportunity: Go FOGO Grants (Round 5) 

Looking for funding opportunities to support your NSW FOGO project?

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