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The Boomerang Alliance

At Environment Victoria, we believe in team work. That’s why we’ve joined a bunch of other environment groups to work together to make Australia a zero waste leader. We call ourselves the Boomerang Alliance.

(You can see a full list of our friends, here)

We work with business, government and the community to reduce waste across this great country of ours.
 

The Boomerang Alliance is campaigning for:

  • Extended Producer Responsibility for all products that pose a problem
  • Waste levies in each state
  • Shifting the cost of managing waste to those who make the products
  • Developing the systems to help companies take-back their products at the end of their lifecycle
  • Providing incentives for waste to be reprocessed locally and for alternative technologies to be used
  • Encouraging new markets to grow around environmentally friendly products (including those that are made out of recycled material)

We’ve also developed a National Recycling Initiative: a series of proposals that we think will help the recycling industry secure its future. For instance, with a little bit of financial support, we can create 2,300 direct jobs and a further 5,800 jobs in service and supply to the industry.

We think that’s worth getting excited about!

Get the latest buzz on the Boomerang Alliance below

 

Vic tests the water on new waste tax

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Inside Waste Weekly

The Victorian Government’s waste management plans appear in disarray after news leaked last week it was surveying residents about how much extra they would pay to process their waste...

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Swift action needed to save recycling jobs

Friday, 19 February 2010

Environment Victoria today called on the State Government and the Opposition to stop treating the recycling industry as a political football and work together to support Victoria’s struggling recycling...

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A waste timebomb that must be defused

Monday, 16 November 2009
Ian Kiernan, The Age

Australians pride themselves on being good recyclers, but at the same time we also generate more rubbish per head than just about anyone else, and much of it stills ends up at the dump...

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Green group welcomes breakthrough on electronic waste

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Environment Victoria today congratulated the federal government on its decision to introduce a national television and computer recycling scheme.

Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett...

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Green group says the beverage industry is “frothing at the mouth”

Monday 2 November, 2009

Environment Victoria has today refuted claims by Fosters, Coca-Cola and Lion Nathan that a national container deposit scheme would be too expensive.

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Government must move on new recycling plant

Saturday, 5 September 2009

Environment Victoria Production and Consumption Campaigner, Fraser Brindley, talks to ABC News about the potential green jobs that stand to be created in a proposed new Recycling Plant.

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Golden DUMP award winner is a lemon

Channel 10

Watch this vid of the golden DUMP (Damaging and Useless Materials and Packaging) award winner.  Coles took these lemons off the shelf as soon as they discovered they had won.

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Summit calls for green makeover for 1 million homes

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

A green jobs report released today by Environment Victoria and the Brotherhood of St Laurence summarizes the recommendations made by more than 180 people from business, government, unions,...

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Green groups welcome breakthrough on electronic waste

Friday, 22 May 2009

Positive moves on fluorescent lighting, computers, televisions, container deposits and tyres at the bi-annual meeting of state and federal Environment Ministers have been welcomed today by environment...

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Toxic TVs, computers must be recycled, say green groups

Monday, 18 May 2009

Environment Victoria and the Total Environment Centre (TEC) today launched a campaign and website to call on Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to introduce a national electronic waste...

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Environment Victoria's campaign highlights for the year

posted by Mark on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 15:48

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It's never easy securing environmental victories, but we reckon we’ve had a pretty good year on the campaign trail. While we’re still not taking the critical big steps forward to reduce emissions, save our rivers and protect our...

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Launch of our ARE YOU IN? Campaign Wednesday, 7 October 2009 Environment Victoria CEO, Kelly O'Shanassy talks about our new campaign to mobilise 5 million people at the recent launch of our ARE YOU IN? Campaign. Share
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Are you in? We've got a bold plan. Get everyone in Victoria to start taking Green Action. That's all 5 million of us, all doing some part big and small, to safeguard our environment. Because we know it's not impossible. In fact, it's already happening. So what do you say? Are you in?   A...
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