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Plastic Waste Solutions Pty Ltd Raising Awareness of Plastic Waste. See www.plasticwastesolutions.com

PWS offers solutions for the reduction of plastic waste that is rapidly becoming the #1 pollution problem we face. From Reduction of plastic by using alternate natural materials, to higher Recycling efficiencies and finally to making the plastic landfill biodegradable in just a few years where in Rejuvenates the soils.

About time these big plastic producers are being held responsible.
18/05/2022

About time these big plastic producers are being held responsible.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced this week a historic investigation into the role of fossil fuel and petrochemical industries in a “decades-long campaign of deception” about the harmful impacts of plastic pollution, and for causing and exacerbating the global plastic pollution cri...

For those of you that still think plastic recycling is managing our plastic waste, read this.
18/05/2022

For those of you that still think plastic recycling is managing our plastic waste, read this.

People often ask what really happens to their plastic recycling. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter where you set out your plastic for recycling collection, whether at the end of your driveway, at your local recycling center, or in a municipal recycling bin: Most plastic items collected as recycling...

Our volunteer group in the news
27/12/2021

Our volunteer group in the news

Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region are joining other countries across the world in committing to reduce the amount of plastic packaging ending up in landfill and polluting the environment.

The popular perception that plastic is easily and widely recycled has been shaped by decades of carefully calculated mes...
26/10/2021

The popular perception that plastic is easily and widely recycled has been shaped by decades of carefully calculated messaging designed and paid for by the petroleum and gas companies that make most of that plastic in the first place, and the beverage companies that depend on plastic to bottle their products.

“Recycling is sold as a means of not worrying about the problem,” says Judith Enck, a former regional administrator at the EPA, now a visiting professor at Bennington College in Vermont and president of Beyond Plastics, a group focused on ending plastics pollution. The companies paying for the ads that frame recycling as an easy solution to a potentially devastating environmental problem know that recycling cannot keep up with the flood of new plastic, Enck says.

Consumer Reports details the big problem with plastic, revealing where most of the plastic you throw away ends up and explaining how to limit its environmental harm.

A report in to consumer insights is saying "that 76% of Australians think that recycling is the most important thing the...
24/09/2021

A report in to consumer insights is saying "that 76% of Australians think that recycling is the most important thing they can do for the environment."

While we all agree recycling is very important and ought to be pushed at all cost. But stopping using of so much 'stuff" has to be far better for the environment. Buying products in single use plastic and then recycling that plastic, thinking that absolves them of any responsibility is flawed reasoning. Today most plastic ends up in landfill. Over 80% of it. The wasted energy and associated CO2 emissions to make that single use plastic will not be retracted when the plastic is put in the recycling bin. The notion that we are developing a circular economy where the same plastic is used over and over again, not just one more time, is a myth at the moment and probably wil be for a long time. Just like paper, plastic cannot be recycled too many times.

We have to stop using so much plastic and push manufacturers who supply it, to use other materials or their sales will fall. Governments need to incentivise industry to look else where or start to pay the full cost of supplying their products in plastic. Then once we get all of this unnecessary plastic out of the system, then recycling the rest will be a much more manageable system.


A new report into consumer insights has revealed that 76 per cent of Australians think that labelling is the most positive thing.

This is a nice summary of how we got to the place we are in and how hard it will be to get out of the problem now.
18/09/2021

This is a nice summary of how we got to the place we are in and how hard it will be to get out of the problem now.

Design is one of the most powerful forces humans have created. Why? Because it influences every single part of our lives — no matter who…

A first for the majour food stores in Australia.The Coles Group has released its full sustainability strategy announcing...
01/07/2021

A first for the majour food stores in Australia.
The Coles Group has released its full sustainability strategy announcing the complete removal of single-use plastics from its shelves and closing the loop by using recycled content on its product packaging.
From tomorrow, the aisles of more than 2500 Coles supermarkets, Express and Liquor stores around Australia will now have single-use plastics off the shelves, diverting 1.5 million kilograms worth of single-use plastic from landfill every year.

The Coles Group has released its full sustainability strategy announcing the complete removal of single-use plastics from its shelves and closing the loop by using recycled content on its product pack...

This is a dire picture and we don’t anticipate the new government “National Plastic Actions” plan will sufficient to mak...
25/05/2021

This is a dire picture and we don’t anticipate the new government “National Plastic Actions” plan will sufficient to make a big change any time soon for plastic waste. More rigid controls on Industry are needed to get them involved in the solution of the waste their products are making.

BINGO has congratulated the Government on its $80 million commitment to the waste and resource recovery industry recently annouced in …

This is where industry needs to be involved in the cost of eliminating waste plastic. It goes far beyond making product...
25/05/2021

This is where industry needs to be involved in the cost of eliminating waste plastic. It goes far beyond making products "recyclable". They have to be involved in getting the waste back to reprocessing plants and the actual reprocessing.

The time has come to rethink the way packaging is designed.

A great start. Btu many more single use items we still don't need that are causing problems in the marine environment....
28/02/2021

A great start. Btu many more single use items we still don't need that are causing problems in the marine environment. Bottle tops, bags, balloons etc.

Victoria will ban certain single-use plastics — such as straws, cutlery, plates and cotton buds — by 2023 in a bid to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, the state government announces.

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