Australia to join global coalition to ends plastic pollution by 2040

Plastic bottles float on the Ebrie lagoon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (EPA - LEGNAN KOULA).

Plastic bottles float on the Ebrie lagoon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (EPA - LEGNAN KOULA. Source: EPA / LEGNAN KOULA/EPA

In the wake of the collapse of the country's only recycling program for soft plastics, the Federal Government has now joined Australia up to a global coalition that aims to end plastic pollution by 2040.


Shane Cuckow [[kick-ow]] from the Australian Marine Conservation Foundation says about 11 million tonnes of plastic goes into the ocean every year.

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