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Key event days Plastic Free July
National Tree Day Plastic News The container deposit scheme is almost here!
Victoria’s container deposit scheme is expected to start 1 November 2023...
Foreshore fun for all with accessible beaches
An inclusive summer is on the way with free matting and floating wheelchairs at St Kilda and Port Melbourne beaches.
Under the fifth year of...
FED: Coal-fired power stations meme fuels a stack of misinformation
Published At : Tue Dec 14 15:31:42 2021 FactCheck Roberts Meme One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has shared misleading information that dates back to at least...
It’s group clean time this Saturday!
Next Beach Clean Announcement
Looking After Port Melbourne Beaches
Our December group clean details:
Princes Pier
Sat 4 Dec 21
9:00 am - 10:00 am
We haven't been able to...
Vic offshore wind projects get $40m boost
Melbourne
Source: AAP Victoria will put $40 million towards kickstarting three offshore wind farms to power more than three million homes by harnessing wild winds off...
Burning koala leads Vic climate protest
By Emily Woods in Melbourne
Source: AAP A giant koala emitting plumes of smoke, and dozens of skeletons on bicycles have converged on a beachside suburb of Melbourne...
Youth march outside ‘failure’ COP26 talks
Glasgow
Source: AP Thousands of young campaigners have marched through the streets of Glasgow, demanding urgent action from world leaders at the United Nations climate conference...
UN uses dinosaur in fossil fuel message
Berlin
Source: AP The United Nations is summoning an unusual "witness" to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming: a dinosaur.
In...
New laws to enforce Vic four-bin system
By Benita Kolovos in Melbourne
Source: AAP All Victorian homes will have to sort their waste into four bins by 2030, under new laws introduced to state parliament.
The...
World ‘way off track’ on climate goals: UN
By Emma Farge in Geneva
Source: Reuters via AAP Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020, the UN weather agency says, warning that the world is...