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...
Queensland steps forward on polluting heavyweight plastics bags & coffee cups
7 July 2022 The decision by the Queensland Government to ban all disposable plastic shopping bags steps up the attack on polluting single-use plastic items, with the plan to introduce a Reusable Shopping Bag Standard to ensure all shopping bags...
2021: Single-Use Plastic On The Way Out
After many years of community action to reduce plastic pollution, 2021 promises to be the year that our state and territory Governments make a start to reduce problem takeaway plastic items. Five jurisdictions – South Australia, Queensland, the Australian Capital...
Queensland Government Acts on Plastic ban but asks a Question about Polystyrene. Let’s Give them an Answer
The Queensland Government has just introduced legislation to ban plastic straws, stirrers, cutlery and plates/bowls in Queensland. Subject to consultation, it will include expanded polystyrene (foam) cups and clamshell containers. We are optimistic...
South Australia bans single-use plastic takeaway items – who’s next?
With South Australia, the first state to ban key single-use plastic items such as straws, cutlery and beverage stirrers – it’s now urgent other states also move on this plastic pollution, the Boomerang Alliance of 52 groups said today. ‘We congratulate the South...Update: Single-use plastics in Queensland
17 August 2020 Author: Toby Hutcheon, Wildlife Queensland Campaigns Officer / Queensland Manager, Boomerang Alliance Further to the tabling of the Waste Reduction and Recycling (Plastic Items) Amendment Bill 2020 that introduced proposed bans on certain...Queensland introduces plastic ban into Parliament
16 July 2020 The Queensland Government tabled legislation yesterday to ban plastic takeaway straws, stirrers, cutlery, plates and bowls. The legislation will now go to a Parliamentary Committee for review and should be passed into law in the next few months....
Keep cafes, restaurants plastic-free
13 May 2020 Wildlife Queensland and its partner The Boomerang Alliance have welcomed the reopening of cafes, restaurants and food outlets, as long as they can be managed as COVID-safe places. “The key practices of these outlets must be to observe social...
Queensland Acting to Reduce Single-Use Plastics: Have Your Say
Updated 15 April 2020 The Queensland Government has announced plans to introduce legislation to phase out certain plastic products. These include plastic straws, stirrers, cutlery, and plates (taking into account the disability needs of people). The phase-out...