Is recycling actually just a form of greenwashing? Globally, plastics generate around 1.8 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year. In Australia, only 18% of plastics are recycled and the nation’s recycling targets are far from being reached.

It’s been reported that each person ingests about a credit card size in plastics each week. That’s roughly 5 g a week or an average of 100,000 g of microplastics every year. The implications of all this plastic on our health is a critical issue.

These are some of the topics that will be discussed in our plastics webinar.. We’ll share ideas for reducing plastic use in your life. And also increase momentum towards phasing out plastics or potentially shifting the country towards recycling targets and a circular economy that would minimise plastic waste and lead to materials being recovered, reused, recycled and reprocessed.

Join:

• Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Executive Director and Founder of the Plastic Free Foundation

• Dr Deborah Lau, CSIRO’s Ending Plastic Waste Mission Lead

• Associate Professor Thava Palanisami, Environmental Plastics Innovation Cluster(EPIC), The University of Newcastle

• Nina Gbor, Director of the Waste & Circular Economy Program at the Australia Institute

for an interactive discussion on plastic waste in Australia.

Register to get the zoom link here.