Aug 27, 2026 | Healthy Waterways, Latest News, Uncategorized, Waste
Prepared by Camille De Burgh for the Conservation Council ACT Region In good news for conscious consumers, soft plastics recycling has returned once again to supermarkets across Australia. With the end of the REDcycle soft plastics recycling scheme in November 2022,...
Apr 30, 2026 | Latest News, Waste
The Conservation Council ACT Region has provided feedback to the City and Environment Directorate on their discussion paper proposing to phase out an additional 14 single-use plastic items in the ACT. Click here to read our full submission. We welcome the ACT...
Apr 11, 2023 | Latest News, Take action, Waste
The REDcycle soft plastics story keeps getting worse, with stockpiles now found in 44 locations around the country and the major supermarkets now considering exporting it due to lack of domestic recycling capacity, with the recycling industry apparently no closer to...
Dec 2, 2022 | Climate, Latest News, Waste
Lurching forwards on climate action in 2022 In a year of more record floods and mild temperatures driven by an unusual concurrence in Australia’s three major climate systems (a strong negative Indian Ocean Dipole, a positive Southern Annular Mode and a triple La Niña...
Nov 17, 2022 | Past Events, Waste
The Conservation Council ACT Region invites stakeholders to contribute their comments on the draft ACT Circular Economy Strategy. This short online workshop is designed to gather your feedback about the draft Strategy to inform our submission to the ACT Government. A...
Nov 9, 2022 | Latest News, Waste
It’s National Recycling Week, so what better way to highlight the topic than to witness the “collapse” of the REDcycle soft plastics recycling service?! Media outlets are running with sensational headlines about “secret stockpiling” of soft plastics, but they are...
