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 ...

Some councils have already trialled or rolled out all four bins to their residents. Why would more bins help? While recycling and reducing waste enjoy widespread support, there’s often a gap between ...

In excellent and well overdue news, Sydney’s City of Randwick will now allow its residents to recycle soft plastics in a move that will hopefully inspire more environmentally conscious change across ...

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful raw material.

Plastics can be hard, plastics can be soft, but can plastics be both at the same time? Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have been exploring this question and produced a first-of-a-kind ...

Bhavna Middha receives funding from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award programme. Ralph Horne receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Kingston and ...