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Victoria becomes final state in Australia to announce a container deposit scheme to reduce litter and waste.

Australia’s major car seat manufacturers are pledging to help with the country’s waste problem by taking back old seats for recycling — which could help cut 200,000 of them from ending up in landfill.

A factory fire in a major recycling plant has forced hundreds of tonnes of waste into landfill, but it offers a chance for households to clean up their rubbish.

Another Melbourne warehouse is left with huge stockpiles of recycling, prompting calls for tougher regulations.

Clean energy, cutting out food waste and restoring ecosystems are key to negative emissions by 2040, a report suggests.

Big businesses have laid out their plans to cut down on single-use plastics as part of a national summit targeting Australia’s waste problem.

With the relaunch of Stikeez — yet another plastic collectables range — Coles is showing dogged commitment to unsustainable marketing.

As people get wealthier they value food less, and food waste in some developing countries is set to explode, researchers say.

WA’s Environment Minister says he has put some money on the table in a bid to stop thousands of tonnes of recycling material from ending up in landfill.

An agreement between two of Western Australia’s recycling processors collapses, putting thousands of tonnes of material at risk of being diverted to landfill.

The Federal Government selects a property at Kimba as the site of a controversial nuclear waste dump.

China steps up restrictions on the production, sale and consumption of single-use plastics as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.

Thousands of tonnes of recyclable waste stored in almost 400 shipping containers will instead become landfill, after SA’s EPA was advised it was too degraded to salvage.

Recycling requires more motivation in the outback, where there is not a yellow-lidded bin in sight.

Thailand is banning single-use plastic bags and 12-year-old Lilly is a big reason why. But it hasn’t been easy to get people to take her seriously.

Australia has been in the middle of a nationwide recycling crisis for nearly two years now, but what happens once we put rubbish in the bin still remains a mystery for many people.

The deal comes amid growing tensions in the region over waste exports, with Indonesia becoming the first South-East Asian nation to send contaminated plastic waste back to Australia.

A local council warns Victoria’s culture of recycling is at risk as the state’s waste crisis deepens and an estimated 780 rubbish trucks’ worth of recyclable material is sent to landfill in a week.

A Victorian cafe is allowing customers to bring in their excess produce and swap it for their morning coffee in a bid to reduce food waste.

Indonesia says the paper waste was sent from Brisbane to Surabaya to be recycled but inside the shipment they found soiled nappies, CDs and plastic bottles.

Recycling your electronics might get old tech out of the house. But on the fringes of Bangkok, villagers say the western world’s e-waste is destroying their lives.

Experts have said it is difficult to get a handle on how big the problem is nationally

Craig Reucassel returns for a 2nd series of the landmark series that sparked action across the nation. Craig targets plastic water bottles, straws, e-waste, fast furniture, food waste and the recycling crisis. #WarOnWasteAU

We’re just not getting that government support consistently across Australia to get those market changes we need.
Mountains of recyclable rubbish have been growing around Australia since China banned the import of many recyclable materials a year ago, causing an enormous headache for local and state governments.

The Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA) is the national peak body for all stakeholders in the waste and resource recovery industry. We have more than 1,900 members across the nation, representing a broad range of business organisations, the three (3) tiers of government, universities, a…

As governments try to solve Australia’s recycling crisis, industry says 2019 is make or break.

The new name reflects the waste association’s growing membership.

In February last year China stopped importing many recyclables from overseas. It left Australia without an export market for its wast.