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Coles will be punished for their plastic bag backflip
August 1, 2018: The decision by supermarket giant Coles to indefinitely offer free plastic bags to their customers will outrage their customers and makes a mockery of their stated commitment to reduce plastic waste. Coles today announced they would continue to give away their thicker “reusable” plastic bags for free instead of charging customers 15…
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The Most Atrocious Plastic Packaging Sent in by Our Supporters
Like life, fruit and veg in plastic are not at all fantastic. ||||||| As you may know, we’ve been campaigning against excessive plastic use in the produce aisles of Coles and Woolies. To get a handle on the extent of the problem, we asked our supporters to send in their most absurd encounters of ridiculous…
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Here are 8 Times People-Power Made A Difference For The Earth in 2018
These inspiring people-powered successes will renew your hope and feed the activist fire in your belly. Campaigning, calling, and protesting. The generosity of donors. These are the working parts of Greenpeace: this is how we get things done.
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Greenpeace activists take part in national day of action on plastic packaging
June 10, 2018: Activists across the country have stickered the worst examples of unnecessary packaging in Coles and Woolworths stores after the companies said they would try to take action to reduce plastics, particularly wrapping on fresh produce.More than 100 activists entered supermarkets in Victoria, NSW, South Australia, and Western Australia to place stickers on…
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It’s all Happening in Port Augusta
Alot can happen pretty quickly here in Port Augusta. Only yesterday I was getting ready to launch a campaign with Greenpeace to ask the South Australian government to follow through on their original promise to pay for the remediation of Bird Lake. Bird Lake has dried up after the closure of the Alinta power plant…
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Government doing nothing to protect communities from toxic power plants
Press release – 14 August, 2017August 15, 2017: A report has found that levels of toxic air pollution emitted by Australian coal fired power plants are so high that many of them would be illegal in the US and Europe.Released today Environmental Justice Australia’s report Toxic and terminal: How the regulation of coal-fired power stations…
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Five planet-friendly alternatives to single-use plastic bags
A few weeks ago, Australia took a huge step forward in the fight to protect our oceans from plastic pollution. After enormous public pressure, community organising and hard-hitting campaigning, Australian supermarket giants, Coles and Woolworths both announced – on the same day – that they would ban single-use plastic bags in 2018. An amazing testament…
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Greenpeace urges Minister Upton to ban the bag at Keep NSW Beautiful Congress
Press release – 1 August, 2017Ahead of Minister Upton’s speech at the Keep NSW Beautiful Congress today, Greenpeace sent a colourful message to the NSW Environment Minister to clean up the state’s act and finally ban the bag.Greenpeace parked a 5 metre high mobile billboard out the front of the Congress at the Kirribilli Club…
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Billions of bags: The cost of inaction on plastics in NSW and Victoria
Last Friday 28/07, state and territory environment ministers met in Melbourne. Plastic pollution was on the agenda – and there was a great deal of hope that NSW and Victoria would finally join the movement to ban single-use plastic bags. Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the venue of a meeting which News South Wales State Premier,…
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Politicians left on the wrong side of history as Woolworths and Coles ban single-use plastic bags
Press release – 13 July, 2017July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths and Coles to completely phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.The supermarket giants today announced they would no longer offer the lightweight plastic shopping bags across their chains of stores network in Australia. “This announcement by…