Page 2 – Ending Plastic Waste

pile of plastic rubbish

Scientists have provided the first ever quantification of products from global plastic producers in the environment through audit events.

fishing boat on the sea with an orange sky as the background

Each year enough fishing line to circle the Earth 18 times is lost in our oceans. This is joined by around 14 billion lost hooks as well. We dive into our research to quantify lost fishing gear and the possible solutions to help reel it in.

torres web headshot

From the heart of the Torres Strait to the forefront of innovation, Torres Webb is championing Indigenous partnerships to tackle plastic pollution.

plastic pollution floating on ocean surface

New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea floor.

plastic waste at a waste facility

Currently only 8 per cent of plastic waste in India gets recycled with the rest either mismanaged, incinerated, or dumped. A new circular economy roadmap aims to fix that.

screen grab of denise hardesty from channel 7 interview

Our science using AI and camera sensors to reduce litter in Sydney Harbour was featured on Channel 7 News.

headshot of heinz schandl

Heinz Schandl is working with our mission to help transition Australia to a circular economy, where waste is avoided from the get-go.

supply chain graph where a business entity is represented as a vertex, and the business relationships are depicted as edges

The Challenge Supply chains can be used to estimate the recycling rate of one product by tracing its production procedure. […]

discarded fishing net

Our research is looking at ways to recycle ghost nets and marine debris in remote areas of Australia.

The challenge  Polystyrene (PS) and expanded PS (EPS) waste are stockpiling in Australia. EPS’s low density makes its transport to […]