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My experience of how Cash for Containers works
Below is just one of the fantastic emails we've received since launching our campaign to stop Coca Cola bullying our Governments and urge them to bring in a national Cash for Containers scheme.
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Plastic and politics: how bureaucracy is failing our forgotten wildlife
Seabirds: the poster children for ocean health. Fishers use them to identify fishing hot spots. Environmental and marine scientists use them as indicators of the condition of the ocean environment due to their ability to cover vast areas. By Jennifer Lavers, Monash University But in Australia, one such species – the Flesh-footed Shearwater – is…
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New ad campaign: starved on a full stomach… brought to you by Coca-Cola
Press release – 6 March, 2013Sydney, 07 March 2013: Following Coke’s scandalous court victory against recycling this week, Greenpeace has launched a crowd-funded graphic advertising campaign in Fairfax papers showing what Coke’s bullying means for the environment.The full-page ads in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald were entirely funded by an unprecedented flood of…
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Coca Cola takes the Northern Territory Government to court for trying to improve recycling
Press release – 18 February, 2013TUESDAY 19th February, Sydney: Environment groups including Take 3, Greenpeace, Clean Up Australia, The Total Environment Centre and Two Hands Project held a court-side vigil at the Federal Court in Sydney this morning protesting Coca Cola’s legal challenge to the Northern Territory’s ‘Cash for Containers’ scheme.“Today, we stand with the…
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‘Just for the waste of it!’
Press release – 17 February, 2013Greenpeace tells Coca-Cola to stop trashing AustraliaSydney, Monday 18th February 2013 : This morning at Coca Cola Amatil’s Sydney head office, Greenpeace activists suspended a giant image of an albatross that had starved to death because its stomach was full of plastic waste, bearing the legend ‘brought to you by…