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A lionfish with a plastic bag in the ocean

WWF: Federal Government’s support for a global plastics agreement is a “breakthrough”

Australia’s support for a new global agreement to address marine plastic pollution is a breakthrough, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia.

4 March 2021

Plastics packaging survey= person carrying some of the difficult to recycle items

Over 80% of food packaging examined in a new survey can’t go into home recycling bins

A new survey of some of Australia’s favourite food products has found more than 80% feature packaging that cannot be put into home recycling bins.

26 February 2021

Waste plastic bottles and other types of plastic waste at the Thilafushi waste disposal site.

Split Senate vote places pressure on Government to address plastic packaging

WWF-Australia is heartened to see the strong support in the Senate for Australia's National Packaging Targets to be mandated within the Government’s Recycling...

8 December 2020

Disposable plastic cutlery and containers used at food markets

WA tops WWF plastic scorecard with plan to ban plastic plates, cutlery, thick plastic bags

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a plan to ban problematic single-use plastics including plates, cutlery and thick plastic bags in Western...

8 November 2020

New report shows Australia can halve its plastic pollution

Phasing out cigarette filters, microbeads and most types of disposable plastic foodware and containers would help halve the amount of plastic pollution flowing...

17 August 2020

Single-use plastic bag floating with a school of fish in a shallow reef

Australia’s plastics scorecard: Queensland races ahead with today’s plastic bill

Queensland has raced into first place on WWF-Australia’s new single-use plastics scorecard with the introduction of their single-use plastic bill into...

15 July 2020

Scientists name new deep-sea species Eurythenes plasticus to highlight pollution

Scientists who discovered a new marine animal, in one of the deepest places on Earth, were so concerned at finding plastic in its stomach they named it...

5 March 2020

Plastic water bottles collected from a beach within a Marine Protected Area

Environment groups: use Plastics Summit to mandate recycling target

The Boomerang Alliance and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia say the Federal government should use today’s National Plastics Summit to announce it will...

2 March 2020

Green recycle bin surrounded by plastic bottles

WWF welcomes Victorian proposal to tackle plastic beverage waste

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a proposal to introduce a container deposit scheme in Victoria and urged for it to be implemented as soon...

24 February 2020

WWF welcomes Queensland plan to ban single-use plastics and calls for other states to take action

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a proposal to ban single-use plastic items in Queensland and is calling for national action on single-use...

7 November 2019

WWF welcomes proposal to ban single-use plastic bags in NSW

“Banning plastic bags is an effective and simple way to reduce the amount of plastic entering our oceans and the places we love. Every other state in Australia...

17 October 2019

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) with a plastic bag, Moore Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The bag was removed by the photographer before the turtle had a chance to eat it.

WWF plastics scorecard: NSW & Victoria “not fantastic on plastic”

Australia’s two most populous states – New South Wales and Victoria – are at the bottom of Australia’s first single-use plastics scorecard, with South...

9 October 2019