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...
moreSwift 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...
moreA 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...
moreGreen 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...
moreGreen 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.
Environment...
moreGovernment 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.
script type...moreGolden 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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moreSummit 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,...
moreGreen 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...
moreToxic 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
yep, there's a few...
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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- Victoria: green and growing |
- State budget submission 2009–10 |
- Victoria - the Green Jobs State. Siezing the opportunities |
- Victoria: The Green Jobs State - creating a green, prosperous and socially inclusive Victoria |
- Green Jobs Summit - Program |
- Green Jobs Summit - Tony Nicholson, CEO, Brotherhood of St Laurence |
- Building comparative advantage in the low carbon world: Victoria’s clean energy jobs opportunities |
- Increasing Victoria’s competitive advantage in green jobs. Tim Piper, Australian Industry Group |
- Barriers & opportunities through energy efficiency. Paul Murfitt, Moreland Energy Foundation |
- Ensuring that disadvantaged job seekers are involved in the emerging green jobs market. Michael Horn |
