1 September 2011 Sure, they're ugly; but plastic bags might not be so bad. Robin Tennant-Wood Banning plastic bags: real change, or a cosmetic solution? By Robin Tennant-Wood, University of Canberra From today, plastic bags are banned in the NT. The ACT will follow suit in November: in 2009 the ACT abandoned its 14-year old “No Waste by 2010” strategy and replaced it with a ban on plastic shopping…
12 October 2011 Smart plastic inventors win PM’s science prize By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation Two Australian chemists have won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for the invention of “smart plastic” technology…
16 March 2012 New process dynamically remodels plastic surface Duke University Engineers have demonstrated the ability to quickly transform the texture of a plastic, switching from a rough to a smooth…
11 October 2011 Plastics causing long-term harm to Victorian seabirds La Trobe University The stomach of fledgling mutton birds, or Short-tailed Shearwaters, on Victoria’s Phillip Island have been found to contain…
16 May 2011 That’s a wrap: keeping crops and the environment safe University of Queensland Crops need to be protected when they’re young, but existing wrappers are usually non-biodegradable plastic that stays in…
