Cheers! Glass wine, spirit bottles to be part of QLD container refund scheme
20 April 2023 In an Australian-first, the Queensland Government has announced that the state’s container refund scheme (CRS), Containers for Change, will expand to include glass wine and spirit bottles from 1 November 2023. This means Queenslanders will get 10 cents...
Step Up to Clean Up this Clean Up Australia Day 2023
23 February 2023 Clean Up Australia Day, Australia’s largest community-based environmental event, is on Sunday 5 March 2023. This fantastic initiative has had an enormous impact over the past 12 months, with nearly 950,000 volunteers spending over 1.8 million...
Containers for Change looks to expand
8 November 2022 Queensland’s popular Containers for Change program could soon be expanded to include glass wine and spirit bottles to ramp up recycling, put money back into the pockets of Queenslanders and charities, and protect the state’s environment and great...
Rethinking waste this National Recycling Week
7 November 2022 National Recycling Week was founded by Planet Ark in 1996 as an opportunity for Australians to take waste and recycling into their own hands by improving their recycling knowledge and building better recycling habits. This National Recycling...
Container for Change scheme has recycled 5 billion bottles!
© Canva NFP More than $500 million has gone back into the pockets of Queenslanders with the Palaszczuk Government announcing five billion containers have been refunded through its popular Containers for Change scheme. Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon said...Queensland Expanding Single-Use Plastics Ban
6 December 2021 Wildlife Queensland and the Boomerang Alliance of 56 NGOs have welcomed the announcement of consultation on a second nation-leading tranche of single-use plastic items to be banned in Queensland. These items include problem plastics habitually littered...
How collecting plastic bottle tops and empty drink containers can help save lives
17 September 2019 Next to plastic bags and containers, plastic bottle tops are one of the top polluters of the oceans and environment. They create microbeads that enter the food chain and pollute our beaches. Not-for-profit organisation Envision has developed an...