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13 everyday items you didn’t know you could recycle
In an ideal world, it’d be easy to recycle everything we didn’t need. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple – but these 13 tips will make it a little easier to recycle more. Even if you were part of the generation of Australians who had ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ drilled into you during the last decade –…
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Here are 10 reasons why super trawlers are not welcome in Australia!
Do you remember the Margiris super trawler that we kicked out of Australian oceans in 2012? I certainly do – I sat on a Greenpeace inflatable and cheered as I watched the monstrous machine leave Australia. Do you remember the Margiris super trawler that we kicked out of Australian oceans in 2012? I certainly do…
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Getting to know Colin Russell of the Arctic 30
Nine months after being illegally seized at gunpoint Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya Arctic oil platform in the Pechora sea – our Arctic Sunrise has been released. Colin Russell, one of the Greenpeace activists on board the ship when it was boarded last September, has been working with our ships for the past 15 years. We asked him…
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Clean up Australia Day: Boomerang Alliance demands action on Cash for Containers
Press release – 28 February, 2014With Clean Up Australia Day tomorrow (Sunday 2 March), the Boomerang Alliance, consisting of 27 environment groups including Clean Up Australia, Greenpeace and the Total Environment Centre, are calling on state and federal governments to introduce a Cash for Containers recycling scheme.The Boomerang Alliance is also encouraging people to take…
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When does no mean no? Government should resist pressure to lift super trawler ban
Press release – 17 September, 2013Wednesday 18 September 2013: Greenpeace and Environment Tasmania today welcomed Senator Richard Colbeck’s proposal to conduct new surveys of the Australian small pelagic fishery, but cautioned him against using this as a stepping stone to overturning the existing ban on supertrawlers.Doing so would open Australian waters to destructive fishing vessels…
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Greenpeace welcomes NSW ‘Cash for Containers’ support
Press release – 25 June, 2013Sydney, Wednesday 26 June: Plastic waste would be greatly reduced under a proposed national Cash for Containers plan which was supported today by NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker.Greenpeace welcomed the Minister’s support for the scheme – which would provide funds for local community groups who collect beverage containers. It also…
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Hi Choke, nice try!
Poor Coke. Their PR team must be having a hard time of late – but to be honest, they brought it on themselves.
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Plastic and politics: how bureaucracy is failing our forgotten wildlife
Seabirds: the poster children for ocean health. Fishers use them to identify fishing hot spots. Environmental and marine scientists use them as indicators of the condition of the ocean environment due to their ability to cover vast areas. By Jennifer Lavers, Monash University But in Australia, one such species – the Flesh-footed Shearwater – is…
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New ad campaign: starved on a full stomach… brought to you by Coca-Cola
Press release – 6 March, 2013Sydney, 07 March 2013: Following Coke’s scandalous court victory against recycling this week, Greenpeace has launched a crowd-funded graphic advertising campaign in Fairfax papers showing what Coke’s bullying means for the environment.The full-page ads in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald were entirely funded by an unprecedented flood of…
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How Australians banded together to stop the super trawler
How it all happened: It all starts back in West Africa, where super trawlers had destroyed fisheries and left locals without jobs. 13 March 2012: Greenpeace highlights the plunder of super trawlers in West Africa. March 2012: The Government of Senegal bans all foreign trawlers following outrage from fishermen that all their fish had…