Boomerang Alliance wants stronger reusable bags, not paper bags
24 February 2023 The Boomerang Alliance welcomes Woolworths’ announcement on the phase-out of their 15 cents plastic shopping bags in Queensland. The move comes ahead of a proposed ban on these bags scheduled for September (in Queensland). Bans are already in place in...
Queensland to ban the release of lighter-than-air balloons
23 February 2023 In a major win for wildlife, the Queensland Government has tabled legislation to ban the release of lighter-than-air balloons. It is expected that the ban will come into effect in September 2023, in line with the Government’s Plastics Roadmap...
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...
Stopping plastic pollution: Urgent focus for environment ministers at first meeting
20 October 2022 The Boomerang Alliance and its allies are calling on the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments to step up action to phase-out polluting single-use plastics and stop greenwash at their 21 October meeting, the first since the election of the ALP...
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...
It’s Global Recycling Day
18 March 2022 In just the past 50 years, humans have consumed more resources than ever before. Recycling has been called the Earth’s ‘seventh resource’ (after water, air, oil, natural gas, coal and minerals) because it saves more than 700 million tonnes of CO2...
Make 2022 even more plastic-free
14 January 2022 The problems caused by plastics, and their breakdown into even more minute microplastic particles that litter our entire planet, are well-documented and make striving for a plastic-free future a goal. Alternatives are available, so with the help of our...