Both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese are avoiding policy as Australia becomes the land of comfortable inaction.
Dow is betting on a new recycling technology amid pressure to address plastic waste that clogs oceans,damaging wildlife and ecosystems around the world.
Aeroplanes could be powered by jet fuel made from household rubbish from 2024.
Can the work of a young English marine biologist help save the Great Barrier Reef? Fingers crossed.
A week on from a deal by federal and state governments to ban exports of domestic waste,communities and councils are still wondering what to do with our garbage.
Humanity is in a race to reverse the destruction of life in our oceans and the wider world before threats get out of control,scientist and explorer Sylvia Earle says.
Rubbish is accumulating at a rate of several thousand pieces of plastic every day on the isolated Henderson Island,a speck of land in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Just how much plastic is in the world’s oceans – and how best to tackle the pollution problem – remains largely unknown.
"Australians are definitely concerned about plastics as an environmental issue at the moment,and they actually rated it higher than climate change in terms of their concern for its impact."
Ultimately we have to admit that our lives have become wasteful and with populations soaring this will only get worse unless we make changes.
Masses of tangled plastic litter and packets of snacks were retrieved from the animals'stomachs,with the heaviest amount weighing 4.3 kilograms.