‘Start with your gift choice’:How to have a sustainable Christmas

‘Start with your gift choice’:How to have a sustainable Christmas

The festive season can be just as dazzling without all the environmentally unfriendly trimmings.

  • byEvelyn Lewin

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Mars bars,Snickers gets paper makeover amid soft plastic recycling crisis

Mars bars,Snickers gets paper makeover amid soft plastic recycling crisis

The new-look Mars,Snickers and Milky Way bars are expected to hit shelves by April 2023.

  • byJessica Yun
Recycling plastics requires changes that are drastic
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Recycling plastics requires changes that are drastic

Just as Australia can be a clean energy superpower,we can be one of the few countries with a highly circular plastics economy.

  • byHelen Millicer
Blue moons and raincoats
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Blue moons and raincoats

Igniting the suburban laundry wars.

Burning issues from the backyard
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Burning issues from the backyard

And battling birds out the front.

Dodgy parking,dumped rubbish:What Australians dob each other in for

Dodgy parking,dumped rubbish:What Australians dob each other in for

Australians have reported their neighbours more than 160,000 times this year for leaving a mess,abandoning trolleys and much more.

  • byAngus Thomson
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From Pac-Man-like ‘living machines’ to mind-control devices:Freaky and fab new tech

From Pac-Man-like ‘living machines’ to mind-control devices:Freaky and fab new tech

From biodegradable cling-wrap to microscopic robots made of stem cells:the next inventions that could change the way we live.

  • byTony Davis
How the people power behind scientific projects can help sustainability

How the people power behind scientific projects can help sustainability

Queensland’s Chief Scientist says many people want to live more sustainably,and a sustainability showcase this weekend will help them find the best ways to do so.

  • byStuart Layt
The ‘superworms’ that might save us from plastic pollution

The ‘superworms’ that might save us from plastic pollution

Scientists have discovered “superworms” can eat plastic,but the worms themselves are not the thing the scientists find the most interesting.

  • byStuart Layt
Australia’s hard rubbish culture a shock to my third-world perspective
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Australia’s hard rubbish culture a shock to my third-world perspective

When I walk to my local cafe I’m alarmed by the amount of hard rubbish left out on the kerb. Back home we would never throw out these items that still can be used.

  • byMaida Pineda
‘Out of control’:Big stink as bins overflow in central Sydney

‘Out of control’:Big stink as bins overflow in central Sydney

Clover Moore’s council is under growing pressure to stop rubbish piling up on city streets amid an investigation into what has gone wrong.

  • byMichael Koziol