Coles has promised to phase out soft-plastic shopping bags in-store and online by the end of next month. The supermarket chain says its remaining supply of soft-plastic bags will be run down in the coming weeks and it will cease selling them by the end of June. The move to reduce unnecessary packaging at the…
Consumers Upset by Food Prices as Inflation Becomes ‘Frustratingly Elevated’: Woolworths Boss
Consumers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the soaring food prices and interest rates, Australia’s largest supermarket chain says. Woolworths Chief Executive Brad Banducci said there are signs of overall inflation moderate in food, while inflation in many areas has been stubbornly elevated. He said the group needed to continue working hard to provide customers with value….
Clock Ticks for Supermarkets to Shift Plastic Stockpile
Australia’s major supermarket chains will not receive any more time to move high-risk soft plastic stockpiles from the failed REDcycle recycling scheme after an extension request was denied. Coles and Woolworths were issued with a draft clean-up notice for 5200 tonnes of plastic stored at 15 sites in NSW earlier this year. New South Wales (NSW) Environment Protection…
Australia’s Largest Supermarket Chains Overcome Challenging Economic Conditions
Two major Australian supermarket chains have reported significant profit growth for the first half of the 2022-2023 financial year, which they attributed to their efforts in meeting customers’ demand and a reduction in COVID-19 related costs. Woolworths Group, which owns the largest supermarket chain in the country–Woolworths, and a number of retail businesses such as…
Coles, Woolworths Takes Responsibility for 12,000 Tonnes of Unrecycled Plastics
About 12,400 tonnes of soft plastic from suspended recycling program REDcycle could fall under the control of Coles and Woolworths as the two supermarket giants offer to pick up the bill. REDcycle, Australia’s largest soft plastic recycling scheme, paused its activities in November 2022, after The Age newspaper revealed it had been stockpiling plastic for…
Woolworths Expands Rollout of Checkout AI Technology
Supermarket giant Woolworths is expanding its use of artificial intelligence technology that captures customers scanning items at self-checkouts in 250 stores across New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. The cameras, placed above the head, will “help reduce misscans,” a Woolworths spokesperson told The Epoch Times. “[The technology] is one of a number of initiatives we’ve…
Australian Child Among Over 100 Sick From Contaminated Spinach, Recall Announced
An Australian child has been admitted to hospital after eating a toxic batch of spinach. The Queensland child is one of more than 100 people across Australia who have reported a possible food-related toxic reaction after eating the “Riviera Farms” branded baby spinach. NSW Health on Dec. 17 said that 88 people in the state have…
Plastics Shouldn’t Be Recycled, Environmentalist Says Amid Secret Plastics Stockpiling
November 9, 2022
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California-based ecomodernist Michael Shellenberger has said that the collapse of Australia’s largest plastic bag recycling program was expected as plastics cannot be recycled and are often shipped to poor nations where it risks being dumped into the ocean. It comes amid revelations that the REDcycle team was stockpiling instead of recycling millions of soft plastics—plastic…
Australia’s Fruit and Vegetable Shortages Will Not End Until September
Australian consumers will have to bear with the current fruit and vegetable shortages for another six weeks before seeing improvements, while supply will not return to normal until September. Ash Salardini, the acting chief executive of the National Farmers’ Federation, said the cause of empty supermarket shelves could be traced back to the extreme weather…
Education Union Press for Gender Affirmation Leave at Tasmanian University
April 28, 2022
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the University of Tasmania (UTAS) are “locked in a battle” after UTAS declined to comply with the union’s request to provide up to 30 days’ leave for transgender staff. The university currently offers 10 days of special leave for their staff irrespective of their gender, however, the NTEU…
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