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 or check out their website
Wishing you a very conscious Christmas
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Michael Green, Domain, The Age
What would the festive season be like without the bells and whistles?
One way of preparing for Christmas involves buying new things - a lot of new things...
moreBaillieu Government gets 'fail' on environment
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Alison Savage, ABC News
The Victorian Government's green credentials have been criticised in an a href="http://www.environmentvictoria.org.au/content/envirowatch-2011-one-...
moreBackwards March calls on Premier Baillieu to change direction on environment
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Over 1000 Victorians are expected to march backwards from Parliament House today at 1 pm to highlight the direction the Baillieu Government is taking Victoria on...
moreVictoria state agenda to be centred on ETS costs
Saturday, 22 October 2011
John Ferguson, The Australian
The cost impact of the national emissions trading scheme will form the centrepiece of the Baillieu government's review of Victoria's climate change...
moreConservationist left several legacies on the land
Friday, 2 September 2011, The Age
Written by Merle Stewart, a friend of the Johnson family
HAROLD REGINALD JOHNSON, OAM, PILOT, ENVIRONMENTALIST, ORNITHOLOGIST, CARTOGRAPHER. 2-...
moreCoalition finds that it's not so easy being green
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Farrah Tomazin, The Age
In a speech to Parliament in November 2009, one year before he was elected Premier, Ted Baillieu strongly supported a carbon pollution reduction scheme...
moreNo carbon cut targets: Baillieu
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Reid Sexton, The Age
The Baillieu government has backed further away from its commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent this decade, just a day after calling on Canberra to dump the...
moreVic Oppn says Govt has forgotten environment
Friday, 29 July 2011
Liz Hobday, PM ABC News
MARK COLVIN: The Victorian Labor Opposition is accusing the Coalition Government of watering down environment policy and backing away from...
moreWorkshops give kiss of life to cast-offs
Monday, 1 August 2011
Michelle Griffin, The Age
After two days stuck in a city basement, industrial designer Will Campbell was laughing like the mad scientist he sometimes claims to be. But he never lost focus./p...
moreStop recycling, start repairing
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Michael Green, The Age
On the mend. Repairing old things creates something new.
A few years ago, Scott Mitchell began accepting busted iPods from all comers, offering to open them up and tinker...
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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 |
