2008

4/11/08 - Industry, Local Government and Green Groups Call for Government Action on Electronic Waste

7/4/08 - More Recycling Targets Broken

2007

9/11/07 - ABC Stateline story on State of Waste in Western Australia

3/9/07 - Beverage industry scare tactics are a lie!

13/7/07 - Green groups welcome WA announcement on used tyres

18/5/07 - Packaging waste in WA highlighted to Covenant Council

20/3/07 - National Litter Index proves bottles and cans are wasting the west

2/3/07 - Alliance launches renewed campaign for container deposits in WA

24/2/07 - 10 cent deposit scheme would help Clean Up Australia

2006

30/10/06 - Packaging Stewardship Forum attempt to dump new recycling costs on local government. Click here to download PDF (PDF, 154k)

6/7/06 - Industry plan to kill off CDL in WA revealed
Media Release July 2006 (PDF, 151k)

2/6/06 - WA residents support government decision to introduce deposits Media Release - 02 June 2006 (PDF, 150k)

2005

27/11/05 - Western Australia announces it will phase in container deposit legislation to help meet NPC targets
Press release from WA Environment Minister (word doc)
Press release from SA Environment Minister (word doc)
Press release from the Boomerang Alliance (word doc)
Press release from Diageo (PDF, 46k)
Article from West Australian (PDF, 126k) 1/07/05

1/07/05 - The Boomerang Alliance today commended Environment Ministers for a historic decision on new recycling targets for Australia’s mountains of packaging...
commend_waste_decision.pdf (PDF, 170k)

1/07/05 - Green groups and local government are calling on state environment ministers not to give in to the Commonwealth on a new packaging agreement.
commonwealth_roll_over_on_waste.pdf (PDF, 177k)

30/06/05 - Green groups and local government are demanding state and federal Environment Ministers deliver a national packaging plan to fix Australia’s growing waste mountain at a meeting in Perth on 1 July.
ministers_on_trial_on_waste.pdf (PDF, 236k)

14/04/05 - Community groups around Australia have applauded a call from NSW and Victorian Environment Ministers to introduce high minimum recycling standards for bottles, cans and cardboard.
industry_called_to_account.pdf (PDF, 236k)

14/04/05 - Victorian Environment Minister John Thwaites will today call for the introduction of tough targets on packaging waste at a meeting of Environment Ministers in Darwin.
John_Thwaites_release.PDF (PDF, 49k)

13/04/05 - NSW Environment Minister Bob Debus will push for tough targets for reducing packaging waste when the nation’s environment ministers meet in Darwin tomorrow.
Bob_debus_release.pdf (PDF, 70k)

12/04/05 - Community groups are building a mountain of plastic bottles in Hyde Park to highlight their call for the return of refundable bottles and cans.
bottle_refund_event.pdf (PDF, 234k)

22/03/05 - Former head of the Californian Department of Conservation Darryl Young today urged Australian businesses to take greater responsibility for packaging waste.
Media_release_Californian_expert.pdf (PDF, 225k)

7/03/05 - Overwhelming amounts of packaging picked up on Clean Up Australia Day show the need for new solutions to reduce packaging waste
CUA_Day.pdf (PDF, 235k)

31/01/05 - Community groups today walked out of consultations in Canberra aimed at reducing packaging waste, accusing industry of snubbing community concerns.
Community_groups_walk_out.pdf (PDF, 232k)

2004

3/12/04 - Ministers avert waste crisis
Media_Release_Ministers_Avert_Waste_Crisis.pdf (PDF, 245k)

19/11/04 - The National Packaging Covenant is Rubbish
Media_Release_NPC_is_Rubbish.pdf (PDF, 125k)