Tasmanian Times
All posts tagged "rubbish"
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2.7KArticleOatlands a Winner in Tidy Towns Sustainability Awards
Media release – Keep Australia Beautiful, 22 May 2023 Australia’s 2023 Tidy Towns Sustainability Award Winners demonstrate regional Australia’s commitment to sustainability...
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Local Efforts Cut Plastic Waste on Beaches 30% in 6 Years
It’s common to hear about large amounts of plastic waste floating around our oceans. But while the problem of plastic waste is...
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Polystyrene Tops Marine Plastic Rubbish Survey
Media release – Conservation Volunteers Australia, 18 April 2022 More polystyrene is being collected from the nation’s largest waterways than any other...
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Clean Up to Assess Mask Litter
The country’s largest community-based environmental event, Clean Up Australia Day (Sunday 6 March), has launched a nationwide ‘citizen science’ project to measure...
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Changing Human Rubbish in Bird Nests
Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their...
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Volunteers Remove 95,006 Pieces of Rubbish from World Heritage Area
A volunteer team of 21 beach cleaners returned from Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area today, carrying an enormous haul of marine debris....
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Waste Levy & Container Deposit Legislation On Way
Media release – Roger Jaensch, Minister for Environment and Parks, 4 February 2021 Waste Levy for Tasmania The Tasmanian Government has today...
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Tamar Estuary Marine Litter Campaign
Like many CVA projects, the work with the Tamar Estuary aims to inspire people to look after the world around them. And...
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Detecting Litter Automatically with AI
From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system It’s estimated about two million...
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Sea Shepherd Names Top Plastic Polluters
The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé are ranked as the world’s top plastic polluters for the 3rd consecutive year according to Break...
