Under a new target, 100% of Australian packaging will be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025. But this is not enough - we also need to ensure that recyclable materials are actually recycled.
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Time for a little more make do and mend.
Coating paper with an inexpensive thin film can allow users to print and erase a physical page as many as 80 times. That reduces both the cost and the environmental effects of paper use.
There will be huge environmental impact if we keep using raw materials as we did in the 20th century.
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Senior Lecturer, Sustainable Design Theory, University of South Australia
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Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Science Leader, CSIRO
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Research Fellow in Sustainability Buildings, Curtin University
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Associate Professor and political economist, Birmingham City University
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Associate Professor, School Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland
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Chancellor's Fellow in Sustainable Design, University of Strathclyde
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Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside
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Professor of Sustainable Resource Use, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
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