For years, Australia has been dumping its recyclable waste elsewhere, mostly in China. Now that the economic giant has reclassified what it will accept, problems are piling up into a plastic tsunami. link to website [...]

Recent moves by China to limit its imports of Australian comingled recycling are not the end of the world for kerbside collections – they are actually an opportunity some in the industry have seen coming [...]

Ask a better question and you’ll get a better answer,” says David Hodge, managing director of Plastic Forests, a pioneering Australian company that has come up with a world-first solution to a global environmental problem. [...]

This content is produced by The Australian Financial Review in commercial partnership with Westpac. Sometimes, a business opportunity comes out of seeing something, and asking a question. For "eco-industrialist" David Hodge, it was repeatedly seeing [...]

Plastic film recycler Plastic Forests has been selected as one of Westpac’s 200 Businesses of Tomorrow, marking itself out as one of a select group of businesses shaping Australia’s future. It is the only environmentally [...]

A Yennora recycling facility has received an $800,000 grant for their dynamic and innovative approach to waste management. Mulgoa MP Tanya Davies recently met with Plastic Forests managing director David Hodge to congratulate the business [...]

Globally, only 4% of plastic films get recycled. The remainder ends up in landfill, is burnt for power generation, or gets flushed into rivers and oceans. The low recycling rate for plastic films is down [...]

Here’s our pick of the top 5 developments in 2014: 1. Rise Of The Circular Economy The idea of a ‘circular economy’ has been rapidly gaining ground as a promising alternative for businesses [...]

There’s an elephant in the room of the waste-to-energy industry: the majority of megawatts generated still come from burning fossil fuels, in the form of plastics, according to director of Plastic Forests, David Hodge, who [...]