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The Path to Positive Packaging 11 Jul 2013 | 07:41 am
The Australian Packaging Covenant provides industry with tools to design and dispose of consumer packaging more sustainably. Find out what it is and what it does for your products and your environment...
Tasmania Says Goodbye To Plastic Shopping Bags 19 Jun 2013 | 02:58 am
Come 1st November 2013, Tasmania will be the fourth State/Territory to implement a plastic bag ban. Read on...
'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' turns e-waste into opportunity 29 Apr 2013 | 05:43 am
Printer cartridges contain valuable metals such as steel, aluminium and copper, much of which can be recycled, so it's important that people continue to recycle them. The recycled materials can be tur...
E-Waste Recycling World Record Attempt 15 Apr 2013 | 12:02 pm
Australians are world-leading recyclers - just look at the 21 million printer cartridges recycled by 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark'. And now, between the 20th and 28th April we can help TechCollect set a w...
WIN an iPad by becoming a case study 4 Mar 2013 | 07:24 am
We want to hear how BusinessRecycling has made recycling easier at work for you. We're looking for BusinessRecycling case studies which we'll promote for free in social media and on the site. Plus you...
An Australian First: Free soft plastic recycling at Coles 18 Feb 2013 | 05:17 am
Frustrated by plastic bag waste? Wish you could recycle your biscuit packets and bread, rice and pasta bags? Well you can now recycle all these soft plastics and more at 376 Coles stores covering Melb...
Schools Recycle Right Challenge Competition Winners Announced 11 Dec 2012 | 11:15 am
The Tetra Pak Schools Recycle Right Challenge Competition was a chance for students to show how well they recycle at home. Find out who the winners were.
The 12 Do's of Christmas 3 Dec 2012 | 07:45 am
Christmas is a time of joy and festivities, but it is also the season when households generate extra waste. Aussies are tipped to spend an incredible $10 billion on food this December, but can you gue...
Fantastic file flingers of 2012 29 Nov 2012 | 05:37 am
For National Recycling Week, fifty fabulous organisations held Friday File Flings to turn their unused files into a valuable resource - and to have some recycling fun! So far 27 workplaces have sent u...
Great cartridge pen giveaway winners announced 14 Nov 2012 | 07:44 am
To celebrate National Recycling Week and to encourage schools to recycle as much as possible, 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' offered Greenschools subcscribers the chance to win one of 10 packs of 15 Enviro...
