Kate Tilley

The Australian government is allowing some companies to export recycled material, but warns the industry that it must come up with its own home-grown solutions.

Australia's antitrust regulator, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, has proposed granting the nation's three major supermarket chains a year to resolve post-consumer soft plastic recycling.

Until the program's demise, REDcycle had delivered the plastic to its partner recycling facilities to process into new recycled plastic products.

Australian designer Bethany Cordwell, 26, initially thought the email from Beyoncé's team was a hoax.

Great Wrap aims to open a micro plant in California followed by a scale-up facility in the Pacific Northwest.

At a March 2 National Plastics Summit convened by Australia's government, many companies made pledges to reduce single-use plastics. An industry pact said it would announce details later this year on plans to help increase the plastic packaging recycling rate from 16 percent to 70 percent by 2025.

A small Australian company has received approval for the nation's first certified trademark for oxo-biodegradable plastic products.

Coca-Cola Australia's parent company, Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd. says it will use 70 percent recycled plastic in all bottles by the end of the year.

The small southeast Asian nation of East Timor wants to be the world's first plastic-neutral nation by recycling all its waste plastic.

The Australian Marine Conservation Society has asked all political parties to commit to an Australia-wide ban on single-use plastics by 2023 and a target to cut the amount of plastic entering waterways and oceans by 70 percent, as soon as possible.

A billionaire Australian businessman and renowned philanthropist wants to tax virgin resins to stop the "escalating tide of plastic waste."

The study said seabirds may select balloons when foraging because of their resemblance to prey, especially squid.

Carlton && United Breweries said 25 million six-pack rings will no longer "enter the environment each year." CUB is replacing the rings with cardboard packaging.