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Coca-Cola lobbying risks Baird’s promised recycling system: video
Press release – 15 February, 2016Sydney, 16 February 2016 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has warned that NSW Premier Mike Baird’s promised ‘world’s best practice’ container recycling system is at risk over opposition from Coca-Cola with the launch of a spoof ad targeting the soft-drink giant.“Last year, Mr Baird committed to a world’s best-practice container deposit…
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The Bad News
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing a lot of bad news recently, so let’s start there. Here’s a random sampling of some of the big bad stories of 2016 so far (well, actually, the last week). NASA, NOAA, the UK Met…
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Greenpeace gifts a surfboard to Mike Baird in call to drop harmful hooked shark deterrents
Press release – 9 November, 2015Sydney, 10 November 2015 – Greenpeace activists today delivered a surfboard to NSW Premier Mike Baird covered with more than 25,000 signatures asking him to rule out shark deterrents that hook and kill marine life such as turtles and dolphins.The surfboard petition calls on Premier Baird to rule out the…
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Could one person start an anti-litter revolution?
What would you do if you saw growing amounts of trash in your local community? One man used it as an opportunity to take a stand against pollution and inspire the world. Pollution is a global problem – clogging up roadsides, parks, rivers, lakes and oceans around the world. The modern world’s overconsumption of…
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Can’t flush this: 5 things you need to stop flushing down your toilet right now
When you flush things down the toilet – they don’t just disappear. Here are 5 things we need to stop flushing down the toilet right now for our oceans. In Australia, what we send down our kitchen, laundry, and bathroom drains – and everything we flush down the toilet – ends up in the sewerage…
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Beyond reduce, reuse, recycle: The 9 ‘R’s of a sustainable life
When it comes to recycling, Australians have a great reputation. In the past few decades, recycling has gone mainstream, with a two or three bin system now available for most people at home, in their workplace, and out and about in public. According to Planet Ark, 85% of Australians now think that recycling at home…
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10 before-and-after photos that track the changes we’ve made to the Earth
Often, small changes made over time are hard to see. Even when we’re making dramatic transformations to our world – through deforestation, industrialisation, and fossil fuel extraction and use – it can be hard to see how large the scars we’re creating are. That is, until you zoom out. For decades, NASA has been monitoring the changes we’ve…