An Adelaide City Council report has found pre-formed plastic packaging for medication is “unsuitable” for the organisation to recycle “at this time”, leaving one pharmacist footing a $277 weekly bill to divert the waste from landfill and questioning the council’s commitment to the circular economy.
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This week, Adelaide city councillors discussed a range of environmental topics, spanning new waste collection infrastructure in Rundle Mall, a potential funding boost for the Park Land’s disc golf course, and protesters trying to save two Frome Road trees from the axe.
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Morag Horton is the owner of Melbourne Street’s Terry White Chemmart, where she accepts and recycles a large amount of the city’s spent pharmaceutical blister packets each year, at a personal cost of roughly $6000 per annum. She wants local councils to step in and lighten the load.
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Forget climate change (don't, actually, it needs urgent attention) – you've done worse things for the planet today than starting your car.
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