The supermarket giant has removed plastic openings from some of its tissue boxes in an effort to cut an estimated 13 tonnes of plastic from circulation each year.
An Australian company that promises to save 96 per cent of waste from landfill through state-of-the-art technology could be thrown on the scrap heap itself.
One council-run recycling service has resorted to checking would-be recyclers' driver's licences as environmentally conscious Aussies travel from afar to find a destination for their plastic waste.
Thousands of tonnes of soft plastics have been found stashed in Melbourne warehouses as Victoria's environmental watchdog investigates a suspended recycling program.
The collapse of Australia's largest soft plastic recycling scheme this week amid revelations of secret stockpiling has revealed serious shortcomings in recycling supply chains and dented customers' confidence in such schemes.
A company that recycles soft plastics handed in at Australian supermarkets said it needs help to continue operations after it was revealed they'd been stockpiling recyclables in warehouses.
Council collectors in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA were caught on camera picking up red-lidded rubbish bins and dumping them into the same truck as the contents of yellow recycling bins.
Used batteries could soon become powerful fertilisers, in a bid to tackle one of the country's biggest polluters, and improve recycling rates in Australia.
A recycling company has been fined more than $36,000 after a regulator uncovered "the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland". The company claimed they had shipped wastepaper.
The company was fined by the NSW Environment Protection Authority for allegedly unsafely storing hundreds of massive bales of paper and processed glass.
Victoria is reportedly set to get a container deposit scheme, after being the only state or territory in Australia without such a recycling program or plans to introduce one.
Six Victorian councils are back recycling at the site of collapsed processing giant SKM as the state continues efforts to recover from the waste crisis.
The collapse of SKM Recycling has forced many councils to dump their recyclables but the government says landfill fees are being used to fund financial support.
A plan for a container deposit scheme in Victoria that would refund 10 cents for each returned drink bottle and can has been trashed by state government.