Pass the Can and help us educate kids
Do you remember playing pass the parcel? Well get ready to play the 21st Century version - Pass the Can! This new Facebook app is set to raise funds for Planet Ark to develop recycling education...
View ArticleWinners of the Wiggos Composting Pods announced
Winners of the Wiggos Composting Pods have been announced!
View ArticleGet students recycling
Planet Ark's Schools Recycle Right Challenge Competition is now open to help students recycle right this National Recycling Week 2012. Find out how you can win some great environmental prizes...
View ArticleSweet Office Flings for the Environment
Hold a Friday File Fling in your workplace this National Recycling Week to help the environment, de-clutter the office and engage your colleagues about the benefits of recycling! It's free to register...
View ArticleFood Scrap Recycling at Work...Brought to You by Costa!
Every year Australians throw away an estimated three million tonnes or $5.2 billion of food, wasting the resources used to harvest, transport, process and distribute this food. However, there's much we...
View ArticleFree TV and Computer Recycling Launched in NSW
In the lead up to National Recycling Week 2012 the NSW launch of TechCollect, the new free TV and computer recycling program was held at Randwick City Council's Perry Street depot today.
View ArticleSecond Nature - Recycling In Australia
For most Australians recycling the newspaper, aluminium cans and milk cartons they use at home has become second nature, but we're still throwing 22 million tonnes of waste into landfill each year....
View ArticleGreat cartridge pen giveaway winners announced
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...
View ArticleFantastic file flingers of 2012
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 us...
View ArticleThe 12 Do's of Christmas
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...
View ArticleSchools Recycle Right Challenge Competition Winners Announced
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.
View ArticleAn Australian First: Free soft plastic recycling at Coles
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...
View ArticleWIN an iPad by becoming a case study
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...
View ArticleE-Waste Recycling World Record Attempt
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...
View Article'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' turns e-waste into opportunity
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...
View ArticleTasmania Says Goodbye To Plastic Shopping Bags
Come 1st November 2013, Tasmania will be the fourth State/Territory to implement a plastic bag ban. Read on...
View ArticleThe Path to Positive Packaging
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...
View ArticleThe cost of workplace waste
Australian workplaces are spending more than $2.2 billion each year on waste services, of which $1.4 billion is spent on waste to landfill. As waste disposal costs increase, it makes financial sense to...
View ArticleNew Recycling Week lesson plans by Cool Australia
Teachers will have an exciting new range of curriculum aligned lesson plans developed as part of National Recycling Week. Check out the range of lesson plans now to engage students about recycling and...
View ArticleDunlop Flooring Wins Banksia Sustainability Award
Acknowledged amongst Australia's most environmentally and sustainable organization's, Dunlop Flooring, a supporter of Planet Ark's National Recycling Week, won the Banksia Sustainability Award in the...
View ArticleTuning Into E-Waste
In 2012-13 more than 29 million TVs and computers were disposed of in Australia but only 10% of those were recycled. That recycling figure is set to soar with the roll out of free e-waste collection...
View ArticlePhones and Cartridges
The 22 million printer cartridges and 7.7 million mobiles recycled though the 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' and MobileMuster programs represent a win for the consumer and for the environment.
View ArticleRecycling Wrongs and Rights
One in every two Australians incorrectly believe they can put old drink glasses and used biscuit trays in their household recycling but both of these items contaminate recycling potentially sending it...
View ArticleCharging Up Battery Recycling
Australians use about 345 million handheld batteries each year, but only 4% are recycled. By making it easy and accessible ALDI's new recycling program has recycled 28 tonnes of batteries in its first...
View ArticleFlinging Old Files For Fun
Every tonne of office paper that is recycled saves enough energy to run 1.5 homes for a month so Australian workplaces are being urged to host an office fling on Friday 15th November.
View ArticleSoft Plastic Going Down Down
Australians dispose of around 300,000 tonnes of flexible or soft plastics every year. A new program being run though selected Coles stores has recycled more than a million units (bags and packets) a...
View ArticleFood For the Environment
Australian households throw away 4.5 million tonnes of food every year or enough to fill more than 450,000 garbage trucks. But food waste is the new frontier in recycling with the options of turning it...
View ArticleFiles rescued for recycling
For National Recycling Week, workplaces, councils and schools held Friday File Flings to turn their unused files back into a valuable resource while decluttering the office! Find out what we...
View ArticleBring friends and family together for a less wasteful Christmas
The 12 Do's of Christmas are set to once again inspire Aussies to celebrate with more joy and less waste. Here are a few ideas to help you involve your loved ones, and get more people reducing, reusing...
View ArticleThanks for taking recycling to new highs Australia!
Latest figures show this year Australia recycled 64.2% of its packaging, our best year ever. Check out what else National Recycling Week achieved as part of the recycling revolution!
View ArticleRecycle right quiz winners!
Find out who won our 5 green prize packs to help make reducing, reusing and recycling easy every day.
View ArticleFrom Toner to Tarmac
The last thing you'd expect to do after recycling your printer cartridges is to drive over them but now you could! Due to the development of a new product that turns residual toner into road surface,...
View ArticleRe-Knitting - The New Yoga
Once the preserve of grannies, knitting has become hip. In fact it is now being seen as the new yoga. Knitting can help calm the mind and requires a bit of practice and skill. But what it doesn't...
View ArticleOpportunity to Shop
Fashion is speeding up, which has both financial and environmental costs. In Australia we spend around $12 billion on fashion retail purchases each year. So, during National Op Shop Week, we think...
View ArticleResponsibility is Trending
If you've recycled a mobile phone or printer cartridge you are part of a growing trend. Manufacturers of an increasing number of products are taking responsibility for the environmental impacts of the...
View ArticleFling Those Files for Free Recycled Paper
Paper is the largest contributor to solid waste generated by workplaces and although paper has a high recycling rate, there are literally thousands of tonnes of paper stored in folders, files and...
View ArticleHow to (nicely) tell your neighbours 'Don't Bag It'
Do you get annoyed when you see recycling in plastic bags? New research shows that lots of people who put their recycling in the bin in a bag genuinely think the items will be recycled. Unfortunately...
View ArticleSwap Til You Drop
How many items of clothes do you have in your wardrobe that never get worn? Or books, bags or games you no longer want but can't bear to throw in the bin? Then maybe what you need is to find a swap...
View ArticleSorting It Out
What happens to your recycling after it's collected from your kerbside? How are the different materials separated? Councils around the country are lifting the lid on the contents of residents'...
View ArticleYes You Can
Almost one in three Australians are unsure what to do with used aerosol cans even though they are easily recyclable. This confusion is resulting in many of the 250 million cans used each year going to...
View ArticleKnow the Facts
Even though aerosol cans are easily recyclable, 66% of Australians aren't sure what to do with them. This is just one of the surprise findings in Planet Ark's Seven Secrets of Successful Recyclers report.
View ArticleDo It In The Bathroom
While most Australians are star recyclers in the kitchen, when it comes to the other rooms of the house their recycling skills tend to go to waste meaning recyclable items like aerosol cans and shampoo...
View ArticleDon't Bag It
More than three quarters of Australians (77%) never put their recyclables in the bin in a plastic bag but 23% do so, either sometime or all the time. Many of this latter group don't realise the...
View ArticleDo It In Public
Australians are so used to having access to recycling that three in four (74%) feel frustration when they can't find recycling facilities when they are out at the beach, park or shopping centre.
View ArticleFling Then Finish The Job
This week thousands of people in workplaces all over Australia are getting together for an office fling - a Friday File Fling that is. A fling is the start of the recycling loop for office paper.
View ArticleFeel Good Recycling
The Seven Secrets of Successful Recyclers shows that recycling at work is good for the environment as well as for staff morale. The reports shows that 78% of Australians agree that having recycling...
View ArticleThink Outside The Bin
As of 2014 there are more active SIM cards in the world than people. This brings into sharp focus the need for recycling options for items not accepted in kerbside recycling bins including mobile...
View ArticleBuy It Back
91% of Australians agree that recycling is the right thing to do. But putting items in the recycling bin is only half the job. For recycling to achieve it's full environmental and economic potential...
View ArticleFantastic File Flinging Achievements
For National Recycling Week, workplaces, councils and schools held Friday File Flings to turn their unused files back into a valuable resource while decluttering the office! Find out the fantastic...
View Article50 Rulers to the First 200 Schools
If you're one of the first 200 schools to enter our 'Cartridges 4 Planet Ark' and Officeworks Schools Competition, you will automatically receive 50 rulers made from recycled cartridges! We're also...
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