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Ocean Plastic Products – are they credible or just greenwashing?

Tangaroa Blue as an organisation has been receiving lots of enquiries as to the credibility of products claiming to be made from ocean plastic. Today, with help from the Environmental Defenders Office, we have submitted a complaint about misleading ocean plastic labelling to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). To assist consumers and AMDI partner organisations in reviewing their own understanding of this issue, we are holding a Q&A panel session with experts from the plastic industry, the Environmental Defenders Office

23 January 2023

Contribute to EcoBrick research

The Tangaroa Blue team have been finding a number of EcoBricks washing up along the Australian coast over the past few years. For those of you who don’t know, EcoBricks are PET bottles packed solid with clean and dry used plastic. EcoBricks are made manually to a set density to sequester plastic and create reusable building blocks. In this way EcoBricks aim to contribute to a circular economy, especially in countries where plastic litter is easy to find so it

5 September 2022

NT proposes ban on helium balloons in Australian first

Thanks to the tireless efforts and lobbying from conservation partners, community organisations and the general public, 7 out of 8 Australian states and territories have now pledged to end single-use plastics. The types of plastics vary slightly from jurisdictions, but any step to remove millions of plastic items from ending up in either landfill or our oceans is a step in the right direction. Most recently (2022) the Northern Territory joined the list, releasing their NT Circular Economy Strategy 2022-2027

5 September 2022

Zero Plastics by mid-2020

Great news! Single-use plastics will no longer be issued from Victoria’s Bayside Council’s

23 April 2019

Category: Single Use Plastics

Ocean Plastic Products – are they credible or just greenwashing?

Contribute to EcoBrick research

NT proposes ban on helium balloons in Australian first

Zero Plastics by mid-2020