The Great Plastic Rescue
Our planet is drowning in plastic pollution—but for Queensland, the tide is changing!
Each year, Australians use one million tonnes of single-use plastics, however the new single-use plastic ban in Queensland will begin to curb this waste.
The new ban, which became law on 1 September 2021, ensures a more sustainable future with fewer single-use plastics polluting our pristine environment, however it also presents a short-term dilemma of obsolete stock inadvertently ending up in landfills.
Crusaders Amy Cobb (pictured below: right) and Bronwyn Voyce (below: left) launched
The Great Plastic Rescue in response to the community’s growing angst for a sustainable solution to deal with banned single-use plastics. Fuelled by their joint passion of turning circular economy ideas into action, they’re on an audacious mission to collect unused, clean single-use plastic items to reprocess, recycle and remanufacture into new valuable, Australian-made products with longer, useful life spans.
In just three weeks, 85 business owners, community groups, schools and wholesalers have pledged 200,000+ single-use plastic straws, plates, cutlery, containers and cups.
It’s not too late to join! If you’re a Queensland based organisation with clean, unused banned single-use plastics, please don’t let them go to waste!
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