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Waste Management and our beaches

By | Waste Management News

CSIRO researchers have spent two years surveying Australia’s entire coastline, counting rubbish on sections of sand and sea every 100 kilometres.  The news is not all good…

See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-11/australia-dirtiest-and-cleanest-beaches/5382134

cigarette butts

Clean Up Australia Day now recycling cigarette butts thanks to Terracycle

By | Waste Management News

Hats off to everyone who participated in Clean Up Australia Day – what a great initiative.

And this year the recycling program has broadened to include cigarette butts thanks to TERRACYCLE.

You can find more info on their cigarette waste recycling program here http://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/cigarette-waste-brigade.html

Read more about the Clean Up Australia program here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-02/clean-up-australia-day-cigarette-butts-recycled/5293296 or at http://www.cleanup.org.au/au/