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NewsThe World's First Single-Use Plastic Free Long-Haul Flight Will Land in Australia Tomorrow
It's flying from Abu Dhabi to Brisbane — eradicating more than 95 single-use plastic items, and saving over 50 kilograms of waste from landfill.
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NewsQueensland's New Container Refund Scheme Has Recycled More Than 400 Million Items
Since launching on November 1, the scheme has also paid out around $40 million in refunds.
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NewsMelbourne Just Sweltered Some of Its Hottest April Days on Record
And the warm weather looks like it'll stick around for the long weekend, too.
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NewsEurope Has Done the World's Oceans a Solid and Banned a Heap of Single-Use Plastics
The EU will phase out the ten plastic items most frequently found on beaches by 2021.
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NewsThis Is What Melbourne's Huge Soon-to-Open Urban Rooftop Farm Will Look Like
The new 2000-square-metre space will sit atop Burwood Brickworks sustainable shopping centre when it opens later this year.
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NewsThis Cost of Living Report Says Sydney Is No Longer One of the World's Ten Most Expensive Cities
The Harbour City dropped to 16th spot and Melbourne is down, too, now sitting in 22nd position.
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NewsThis New Melbourne Eco Truck Will Refill Your Cleaning Products While Reducing Your Plastic Waste
The Roving Refills truck is stocked with bulk products — simply BYO containers and fill 'em up.
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NewsBrisbane Is Set to Sweat Through an Early Autumn Heatwave
Temperatures will reach 30 degrees every day for the next week, and could even break heat records.
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NewsHobart Will Become the First Australian City to Ban Single-Use Plastics
The ban will be rolled out in late 2019 or early 2020 — other cities, take note.
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NewsQueensland to Be Hit With Wet and Wild Weather as Cyclone Approaches
While Tropical Cyclone Oma isn't expected to hit land, it will cause lots of rain and gale force winds across Brisbane and the southeast coast.
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NewsWoolies Has Stopped Selling $1 Milk in Support of Aussie Dairy Farmers
Two- and three-litre varieties of its home-brand fresh milk have increased in price, with the extra money headed back into Aussie farmers' pockets.
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NewsAustralia Is Set to Swelter Through a Hotter-Than-Average Autumn
Don't pack away your pedestal fans just yet.
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NewsCoca-Cola Is Ditching Single-Use Plastic Straws from 115,000 Aussie Venues
It's aiming to have 100 percent recyclable packaging in Australia by 2025.
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NewsVictoria's $1.5 Billion New Wind Farm Could Supply Ten Percent of the State's Energy
The 17,000-hectare Golden Plains Wind Farm has just been given planning approval by the Victorian Government.
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NewsAustralia Is Set to Sweat Through a Country-Wide Heatwave This Week
Every state and territory will be affected
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NewsThese New Sydney Vending Machines Are Dispensing Freshly Squeezed OJ for a Good Cause
The Juice For Good machines are conquering food waste, turning rescued fruit into juice.
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Queensland's New Container Refund Scheme Has Recycled More Than 102 Million Items
Since launching on November 1, the scheme has also paid out around $10 million in refunds.
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NewsSydney Kicked Off 2019 With a Record-Tying Hot Spell
It's set to hit 38 degrees in the city today.
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NewsThis Airline Is Set to Become the World's First Plastic-Free Carrier
Portuguese carrier Hi Fly has conducted a world-first trial, preventing 350kg of single-use plastics from making their way to landfill.
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NewsThese Potential Rental Reforms Could Make it Slightly Less Painful to Rent a Home in Brisbane
Hanging a picture on your wall or welcoming a pet into your home might soon become much easier.
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NewsMelbourne Is Currently Copping Its First Heatwave of the Season
It's set to hit 38 degrees in the city on Friday.
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NewsNationwide Bans Have Already Helped Eliminate 1.5 Billion Plastic Bags from the System
With plastic bag usage down by 80 percent at retailers across the country.
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NewsThis Local Recycling Initiative Is Turning Used Coffee Cups Into Everyday Items
Thanks to a grant from the NSW Government, Simply Cups will be able to divert 11 million cups from landfill over the next 12 months.
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NewsSydney's Inner West Now Has Its Own Smartphone App To Help You Manage Waste
The Waste App features tips, information and calendars to help locals minimise waste
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Sydney Is Set to Cop Its First Heatwave of the Season This Friday
It's set to hit 37 degrees in the city.
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Europe Is Set to Do the World's Oceans a Solid By Banning Several Single-Use Plastic Items
The EU is planning to phase out plastic cutlery, plates, stirrers and straws, as well as cotton buds and balloon sticks, by 2021.
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You Can Now Exchange Empty Bottles for Cash Thanks to Queensland's New Container Refund Scheme
Launching on November 1, the scheme lets you swap your plastic, aluminium, glass, plastic and steel containers for 10c — here's how it works.
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NewsBotanic Box Is Brisbane's New Monthly Plant Subscription Service
Get new plants — and handmade art — delivered to your door each month.
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NewsSouthbank Boulevard's Green Makeover Has Begun with the Installation of Plant-Covered Tram Tracks
The tram tracks now boast a carpet of native pig face and everlasting daisies
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NewsThe Victorian Government Is Launching Free Public Transport for Disadvantaged Melburnians
It's part of a year-long trial to keep fares fair and help support homeless and disadvantaged Victorians.
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The Queensland Government's New Rental Review Could Make Renting a Home Slightly Less Painful
Hanging a picture on your wall or welcoming a pet into your home might soon become much easier.
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NewsThese Rental Reforms Will Make it Slightly Less Painful to Rent a Home in Melbourne
The Victorian Government's amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act will cap bond amounts, let you hang things on the wall and make it harder for landlords to reject pets.
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NewsA Reusable Coffee Cup Sharing Network Could Soon Be Rolled Out Across the Inner West
The trial would allow you to borrow reusable cups and return them to participating cafes.
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NewsNSW Could Soon Be Home to a Huge New Marine Park Stretching Between Newcastle and Wollongong
In an effort to protect and boost biodiversity, 25 sites would become sanctuary and conservation zones.
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NewsA World-First Reusable Coffee Cup Made from Recycled Takeaway Cups Has Just Launched in Australia
You can now buy the 'rCUP' at 7-Elevens across the country.
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These Proposed Rental Reforms Could Make it Slightly Less Painful to Rent a Home in Melbourne
Melburnians generally deal with a cacophony of crap when renting — but the Victorian Government's proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act could help change that.
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NewsColes Has Backflipped on Its Plastic Bag Ban and Will Give Them Out for Free Indefinitely
All 15c reusable plastic bags at Coles will be complimentary in NSW, Vic, WA and Qld.
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News#SydneyDoesntSuck Is the City of Sydney's New Campaign Against Single-Use Plastic Straws
The campaign hopes to curb Australia's 10-million-a-day plastic straw habit.
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NewsMelbourne's First Reusable Coffee Cup Sharing Network Is Launching This Week
Next time you forget your keep cup, you can borrow a Viva La Cup.
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NewsMcDonald's Will Phase Out Plastic Straws in Australia by 2020
While it's a big win for the environment, it also has unwelcome consequences for some members of the community.
