Each year around 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear is lost or thrown overboard by the fisheries around the world. These “ghostnets” drift through the oceans and can continue fishing for many years. They kill…
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For the past 30 years, South Australians have lived in a state with a “container deposit scheme”. This means on small bottles or cans of water, soft drink, juice or alcohol, consumers pay a 10c deposit…
Between 30 million and 50 million plastic bags enter the environment as litter in Australia each year. These environmentally damaging bags - produced to be used once and then thrown away - are a symbol…
Maps are being drawn up of likely paths that plastic debris would travel through the ocean in order to save turtle hatchlings…
Bisphenol A (BPA) - a chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and some epoxy resins – has been in the news quite a bit lately. Headline-grabbing news items have been breathlessly reporting…
Engineers have demonstrated the ability to quickly transform the texture of a plastic, switching from a rough to a smooth…
Two Australian chemists have won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for the invention of “smart plastic” technology, a technique that revolutionised the way paints, contact lenses, solar cells…
The stomach of fledgling mutton birds, or Short-tailed Shearwaters, on Victoria’s Phillip Island have been found to contain…
From today, plastic bags are banned in the NT. The ACT will follow suit in November: in 2009 the ACT abandoned its 14-year old “No Waste by 2010” strategy and replaced it with a ban on plastic shopping…
Researchers have uncovered a natural and cost-effective method to decontaminate groundwater polluted by PVC plastic production…
Crops need to be protected when they’re young, but existing wrappers are usually non-biodegradable plastic that stays in…
Principales colaboradores
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
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Professor of Sustainable Development, Keele University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Research Chair, Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Management, Keele University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Lecturer in Ornithology, Charles Sturt University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmospheres, CSIRO
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Research associate, Loughborough University
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley
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Oceanographer, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in Oceanography and Public Engagement, Utrecht University
