Life-cycle assessments of food packaging often omit the impact and possible toxicity of plastics leaking into the environment. Excluding these factors gives plastics an unjustified advantage.
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Right to Repair laws make it easier for consumers, repairers and tinkerers to fix their broken goods. It's an attractive alternative to the dangers of overflowing e-waste.
A new business is skipping recycling in favour of returning, washing and reusing sturdy containers for common groceries.
Australia's recycling woes belong to everyone, from households to government to business. It's time to stop pointing fingers and get to work on a solution.
Australia doesn't want to deal with its own recycling waste, so why do we think other countries should do it for us?
Every year the US burns more than 34 million tons of garbage in incinerators. These plants are major pollution sources, and most are clustered in disadvantaged communities.
Recycling is a messy system at the moment. Here's how we can clean up our act.
New types of biodegradable or compostable plastic products seem to offer an alternative to conventional plastics. But they may be no better for the environment.
Ipswich Council has stopped recycling and it's likely that others around Australia will follow suit.
Millions of tonnes of plastic garbage winds up in our oceans each year. Voluntary pledges haven't worked. It's time for Canada to advocate for an international plastics treaty.
The scale of fast fashion is so massive it can easily eclipse sustainability initiatives. We need investment in new technologies to revolutionise the industry.
City dwellers are individually starting to do their bit to live sustainably. Now pioneering businesses are aiming to make ecological and social sustainability part of their bottom line.
In the rush to increase recycling, we should remember that reducing waste in the first place is a much a higher priority.
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Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economic Geography, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fashion and Textiles Designer, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law, Griffith University, Associate Director Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA), Griffith University
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Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
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Research associate, Loughborough University
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School
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Adjunct Professor, Allard School of Law. Senior Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative, University of British Columbia
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Professor emeritus, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA), Griffith University
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Senior Associate at the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
