Councils to review collecting plastic bags in recycling bins

The future of a popular recycling service that allows half a million Victorians to put plastic bags in their kerbside recycling bins is in doubt following the crisis precipitated by China’s crackdown on waste imports.

Four Victorian councils are reviewing a service that
allows residents to put plastic bags in recycling bins.

Flexible plastics recycling was introduced with great fanfare in 2016 and 2017 by four pioneering Victorian councils – Nillumbik, Cardinia, Hobsons Bay and Boroondara – which said the “exciting change takes us one step closer to eliminating waste sent to landfill”.

Read the story from The Age by Jewel Topsfield - “Councils to review collecting plastic bags in recycling bins.”

‘Silenced': Leading reef research centre faces axe after funding miss

One of the world's premier coral reef research centres has failed to secure Australian Research Council funding, placing in doubt the science hub even as the Great Barrier Reef faces another bout of bleaching.

Professor Terry Hughes, head of the ARC Centre of
 Excellence for Coral Science Studies, James Cook
University, has often been critical of government policy.CREDIT:

The council confirmed in Senate estimate on Thursday that the Townsville-based Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies missed out on even making the funding shortlist for its next round of funding.

Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Hannam - “‘Silenced': Leading reef research centre faces axe after funding miss,”