Families, environmental advocates, and community members came together for a fun World Environment Day Festival at Murwillumbah Showgrounds on Sunday, 13 July. 

The Ballina Environment Society (BES) is urging local community groups, environmental organisations, and businesses to endorse an open letter calling on Ballina Shire Council to eliminate single-use items from its operations, events, and facilities as a call to action for Plastic Free July.

The Queensland Liberal National Party government must explain why it did not support progressing national efforts to cut plastic pollution, the Australian Marine Conservation Society said after the national environment ministers meeting yesterday.

Bacteria from the stomach of a cow can digest some plastic, removing it from the environment, according to a team of Austrian researchers.

A group of local recycling enthusiasts received a much-needed boost to their efforts last Thursday, when they received $17,500 at the Southern Cross Credit Union office in Mullumbimby. 

Every species has its own characteristic niche in an ecosystem, but in the age of the Anthropocene, the scale of our influence on the environment has come to dominate.

I have really cut down on my use of single-use plastic shopping bags. I don’t have a single single-use plastic shopping bag in my shack at the moment. But the planet is still heading for environmental collapse.