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.
Landfill
22 November 2019
Let’s fix coffee cups so we can start to focus on food waste
One billion single use coffee cups are sent to landfill every year. Sounds like a lot but this represents less than 0.0004% of the waste generated in Australia per year.
So, what can we do to deal with coffee cups so that we can focus on significant streams like organics (particularly food), which represent around 50% of all waste to landfill in Australia?
