Researchers have perfected a fiber-reinforced fishing lure that may prevent millions of pounds of toxic plastics from polluting waters nationwide. Earning raves in the sport-fishing world, a young ...

Have you ever found yourself wondering what to do with plastic packaging film, bubble wrap, plastic shopping bags, and other soft plastics that can’t be recycled in the blue bins at home? A new pilot ...

Imagine the weight of three Sydney Harbour Bridges. Between 2022 and 2023, product manufacturers were responsible for 540,000 tonnes (or three Sydney Harbour Bridges) of soft plastic packaging in ...

Australia has launched a new soft plastics recycling scheme three years after REDcycle’s collapse, but the program expects to recycle less than one per cent of the nation’s waste. However, the ...

Australia's antitrust regulator, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, has proposed granting the nation's three major supermarket chains a year to resolve post-consumer soft plastic ...

Swee-Hoon Chuah is a Board Member of Brand Tasmania (Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania) and sits on the Academic Advisory Panel of the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government ...