Kate Tilley

Samsara has global ambitions. It wants to open factories in Europe by 2025, then expand into North America.

<p>An independent expert has said a takeover bid for one of Australia’s largest plastic packaging companies by its current chair is “opportunistic.” But the suitor is defending the offer.</p>

<p>An Australian yogurt manufacturer has been forced to change the wording on its plastic tubs after Australia’s competition watchdog investigated it for making false claims the tubs were made from 100 percent ocean plastic.</p>

<p>Australia’s only ethylene manufacturer and a major polyethylene producer, Qenos Pty. Ltd., has gone into voluntary administration only days after its Chinese owner sold the company.</p>

<p>Australia’s competition watchdog is taking action against another plastic product manufacturer for allegedly making false claims about the origin of recycled content in its products.</p>

<p>An Australian federal government committee has made 22 recommendations for actions related to plastic pollution in the nation’s oceans and waterways following an inquiry.</p>

An Australian company that is commercializing an infinite plastics recycling process has just raised another A$100 million (US$65.5 million) in a new funding round.

The chairman of Australia's biggest plastic packaging company, Pact Group Ltd., has called on the Australian Government to speed the planned legislative change to enforce mandatory recycled content in plastics packaging.