After the collapse of soft plastic recycling program REDcycle nearly three years ago, it's been almost impossible for individuals to recycle soft plastics in Australia. But supermarkets and councils ...

Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to ...

A new large-scale soft plastics recycling facility will be able to prepare waste plastic packaging to be turned back into rigid plastics or food grade soft plastics. It has capacity to process nearly ...

New biodegradable structures could improve energy, information technologies and help to advance medicine. This is in the form of soft, sustainable electroactive materials. This follows Northwestern ...

Anya Phelan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Swee-Hoon Chuah is a Board Member of Brand Tasmania (Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania) and sits on the Academic Advisory Panel of the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government ...

The Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia (SPSA) scheme is currently with the ACCC for consideration. Source: Yahoo News Australia/Getty Supermarkets are pitching a new plastics recycling scheme they ...

Major Australian supermarket retailers have received permission to cooperate to find a solution to plastic film recycling. The retailers had to seek permission from the Australian Competition & ...

Brisbane, Australia — Soft plastic collection could soon return to Australian supermarkets, following a preliminary green light from the country's antitrust regulator. The Australian Competition and ...