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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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NewsSydney 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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NewsEurope 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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NewsYou 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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NewsThe 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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NewsThe New Zealand Government Will Phase Out Single-Use Plastic Bags Over the Next Year
Soon the bags will disappear form checkouts around the country.
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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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NewsGoogle, Tourism and Ziplining Helped Save and Restore This Rotorua Native Forest
A Rotorua-based ziplining company is restoring virgin native forest.
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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.
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Coles Has Also Paused Its Plastic Bag Ban and Is Currently Giving Them Out for Free
All 15c reusable plastic bags at both Coles and Woolworths will be complimentary in NSW, Vic, WA and Qld until July 8.
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NewsWoolworths Has Paused Its Plastic Bag Ban and Is Currently Giving Them Out for Free
All 15c reusable plastic bags will be complimentary in NSW, Vic, WA and Qld until July 8.
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Victoria Will Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags from 2019
That makes NSW the only state that hasn't committed to reducing the use of plastic bags.
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NewsIKEA Will Now Let You Trade In Your Unwanted Furniture
In an Aussie first, Sydney's Tempe store now lets you trade in furniture for vouchers — and sells it on to a new home.
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NewsMelbourne's Crown Casino Complex Has Started Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics
It's kicking things off by taking part in the Plastic Free July Initiative.
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NewsYou Can Eat Chocolate for a Good Cause Thanks to the Nikau Foundation
Funds raised from the Wellington Resilience Chocolate Bar will help ensure the community is equipped post-crisis.
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Woolworths Will Stop Stocking Single-Use Plastic Bags from This Week
And Coles will follow suit on July 1.
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NewsVessel Nundah Is Brisbane's New Zero-Waste Skincare and Homewares Store
Take your own reusable bottles to fill up on cleansers, moisturisers, dishwashing liquid, soap and more.
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NewsConstruction on Melbourne's 2000-Square-Metre Urban Rooftop Farm Has Begun
It will sit atop one of the world's most sustainable shopping centres in Burwood East.
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IKEA Is the Latest Company Pledging to Ban Single-Use Plastics
And by 2030, all of its products will be made with renewable and recycled materials.
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NewsInner West Sydney's Car-Free GreenWay Is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
Construction on the five-kilometre bike and pedestrian corridor is expected to begin next year.
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NewsThis Melbourne Council Is Turning Plastic Waste Into Roads
In an Aussie-first, soft plastics destined for landfill will be used to create a more sustainable type of asphalt
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NewsOne of Sydney's Inner City Car Parks Is Getting a Rooftop Community Garden
The Kings Cross Community Garden Group will build a new 250-square-metre garden on the rooftop of Kings Cross Car Park.
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NewsAustralian Architects Have Filled a Venice Pavilion with 10,000 Native Plants
On display until November, visitors can wander through a field of grassland comprised of threatened Australian species.
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NewsSydney's Iconic Sirius Building Has Officially Been Put on the Market
Expressions of interest are now open for the '70s-era structure; however the government will aim to ensure that "any future developments are sympathetic to the surrounding area."
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The UK Parliament Has Made a Landmark Decision to Go Plastic-Free
It's introducing a levy on disposable coffee cups and moving to ban all single-use plastic bottles.
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The UK Parliament Has Made a Landmark Decision to Go Plastic-Free
It's introducing a levy on disposable coffee cups and moving to ban all single-use plastic bottles.
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NewsCountdown Will Begin to Phase Out Single-Use Plastic Bags This Month
The initiative will roll out at ten stores from 21 May.
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NewsThis Environmentally Conscious Search Engine Turns Your Online Queries Into New Trees
Ecosia invests at least 80 percent of its profits into planting trees around the world.
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NewsAustralia Is Set to Ban Non-Recyclable Packaging By 2025
100 percent of the country's packaging will be recyclable, compostable or reusable in the next seven years.
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NewsSomeone Has Designed Sneakers with Soles Made from Used Chewing Gum
The shoe offers an innovative solution to The Netherlands' costly gum litter problem.
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NewsAdidas' New Kicks Are Made From Recycled Ocean Plastic
Part of the label's latest collaboration with Parley, each pair is made from 11 plastic bottles.
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NewsThese Sydney Cafes Will Give You a Free Coffee For Helping Clean Up the Beach
Fill up a bucket with rubbish from the beach, and you'll score a free brew.
