Related Sites - National

Aerosol Association of Australia
Information about the design, use and recycling of aerosol cans.

Association of Liquidpaperboard Carton Manufacturers
Information about milk and juice cartons.

Australian Environmental Labelling Association
The Australian ‘Good Environmental Choice’ launched in November 2001 provides to the community an environmental mark of recognition for a wide range of products. The benefits of an independent environmental label is that all Australians can easily recognise products which are sensitive to environmental pressures.

Australian Paper Industry Council
The Australian Paper Industry Council (APIC) represents the views and interests of the six largest pulp and paper companies in Australia, which together make 98% of the pulp and paper manufactured here based on sales turnover figures. Includes information on paper recycling.

Australian Real Nappy Information
This website has been created to provide information for parents considering the nappy choices available for their babies.

Beverage Industry Environment Council Litter Research
Provides results and methodology of new systems of Litter Research. Research looks at what is littered, where, when, who litters and why they do it.

Clean Up Australia
Australia's largest annual litter clean up event. Held once every year thousands of people volunteer to clean up Australia and remove other people's rubbish from beaches, bush, parks, playgrounds, rivers and roads.

Collex Waste Management
Collex-Onyx provide a variety of waste management services including Waste Collection Services, Resource Recovery Facilities, Disposal Facilities and Energy Recovery, Facilities Management, Emergency Response, and Technical Services.

Community Change
Community Change is a social research company that has conducted much work in the field of litter and littering. They have examined social & cultural attitudes and behaviours with respect to the human and natural environment to better appreciate why people litter.

Drum Muster
drumMUSTER is the national program for the collection and recycling of empty, cleaned, non-returnable farm chemical containers.

Eco-Buy Victoria
ECO-Buy is Victoria's local government green purchasing program. The program works with Victorian Councils to increase their purchasing of recycled, greenhouse friendly and environmentally preferred products.

Ecological Home Products
Ecological Homes is an Australian-based company that acts as a One-Stop Shop for Australians wanting to make their homes more sustainable.

Eco Recycle Victoria
EcoRecycle Victoria is a state government agency providing information and advice to business, government and community on waste reduction and recycling.

EcoReDesign Toolkit
A comprehensive step-by-step guide for companies interested in improving the environmental performance of their products by maximising competitiveness and minimising environmental impacts through design.

Environmental Impact of End-of-life Vehicles
This Environment Australia report provides information into increasing the recycling of End of Life Vehicle (ELV) materials.

Green and Organic Waste Management Guide for Schools
This curriculum guide is designed to introduce young Australians to best practice management of green and organic waste. While not an exhaustive or formal environmental education resource the Guide is intended to raise the awareness of school age children to environmentally sound waste management practices.

Green PC
Green PC's are recycled personal computers that are refurbished and repackaged into usable Internet-ready computers which are then made available to low-income communities, individuals and community organisations.

Keep Australia Beautiful
Keep Australia Beautiful runs anti-litter campaigns and educates Australians about environmental issues including waste minimisation, energy conservation, water quality, recycling, costal care and roadside management.

Know Your Paper
A guide to purchasing recycled content office paper that will help you to select the paper that is appropriate to your needs whilst contributing to the conservation of our natural resources. The guide details the characteristics and performance of currently available recycled content printing and copying papers."

National Packaging Covenant
The National Packaging Covenant is a self-regulatory agreement between packaging stakeholders and the govenment to adopt responsibility for reducing the amound of packaging waste produced.

NSW Environmental Protection Agency - "Litter"
Facts about litter, NSW Government Littering Laws, Taking Action, Research Results, FAQs, Local Government Toolkit.

Planning Guide for Best Practice in Public Place Recycling
Victoria's Eco-Recycle presents a well researched draft planning guide for Best Practice in Public Place Recycling. Involves some very interesting research on public behaviour, and how to use this to best effect.

Plastic Bags
Federal government report on the impact of plastic bags on the environment. Conducted by the Environment Protection and Heritage Council.

Publishers National Environment Bureau.
Information about paper and magazine recycling and production.

Recycled Organics Unit - University of NSW
NSW centre for organic resource recovery, management, research and development, demonstration and training. This site contains a large amount of information relevant to the recycling of organic waste into useful products such as compost for agriculture.

RMIT Centre for Design
The Centre for Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology has undertaken much research in the area of Life-cycle assessment

Shop Smart Buy Green
An online guide developed by the Department of Environment and Heritage with useful information on how to green your purchasing habits.

SITA Environmental Solutions
Services include domestic, bulk and commercial / industrial collection, waste identification and resource recovery options, sorting, processing such as composting, autoclaving, product destruction, waste stabilisation, engineered landfill operations and transfer facilities.

Steel Can Recycling
This website is dedicated to steel can recycling in Australia. It also has an excellent section on steel can other recycling in local councils around Australia.

The Aluminium Can Group
This organisation represent the aluminium can manufacturers in Australia.

The Non Toxic Directory
The website is provided as a service to the community, and as online retail space for the new genre of safer, people-friendly products and services.

The Packaging Council of Australia.
General information about the packaging industry in Australia. Also contains information on the National Packaging Covenant. The aim of the Covenant is to provide more effective managemnt of used packaging based on the principles of shared responsibility and product stewardship.

The Worm Shed
The Worm Shed has been developed as an Eco Education Centre, catering primarily for students. The Farm itself, is a self-sustainable ecosystem which demonstrates simple recycling methods using WORMS.

NSW Waste Reduction and Purchasing Policy
"The NSW Government's Waste Reduction and Purchasing Policy was announced by the Premier in September 1997. The policy requires all state government agencies and state owned corporations to develop and implement a plan to reduce waste."

Victorian Litter Action Alliance
The Victorian Litter Action Alliance is the peak body for litter management and prevention in Victoria and aims to provide a coordinated approach to preventing litter in Victoria across state and local government, industry and community sectors. There are eleven members of the Alliance who each play their own part in the fight against litter.