Oceania
The chairman of Australia's biggest plastic packaging company, Pact Group Ltd., has called on the Australian Government to speed the planned legislative change to enforce mandatory recycled content in plastics packaging.
An Australian research group has called for a European Union-style levy on virgin plastic packaging to raise funds to find alternative materials to plastics.
An Australian federal government committee has made 22 recommendations for actions related to plastic pollution in the nation's oceans and waterways following an inquiry.
Australia's competition watchdog is taking action against another plastic product manufacturer for allegedly making false claims about the origin of recycled content in its products.
Australia's only ethylene manufacturer and a major polyethylene producer, Qenos Pty. Ltd., has gone into voluntary administration only days after its Chinese owner sold the company.
An Australian yogurt manufacturer has been forced to change the wording on its plastic tubs after Australia's competition watchdog investigated it for making false claims the tubs were made from 100 percent ocean plastic.
A group like by Pact Chairman Raphael Geminder is edging closer to full ownership, but the journey has been arduous.
The packaging distributor and maker is acquiring a company in Western Australia.
An independent expert has said a takeover bid for one of Australia's largest plastic packaging companies by its current chair is "opportunistic." But the suitor is defending the offer.
The Australian government has committed A$250 million (US$160 million) to a Recycling Modernization Fund (RMF), of which A$60 million (US$38.4 million) is dedicated to the RMF's plastics technology stream.
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