Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele, our Key Research Leader for Behaviour Change within the Solving Plastic Waste CRC and Director Social Marketing at Griffith University, spoke at the Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) NSW Conference in Sydney.

Used on average for 14 seconds, single use plastics (SUP) pose a significant challenge.  Voluntary behavioural change approaches provide autonomy capable of delivering lasting change. Her talk outlined how councils and individuals can reduce single use plastics and benefit from five years of R&D.

Sharyn’s talk draws from evidence from 15-year research program on voluntary behaviour change. It introduced the CBE framework, highlighted scalable co-designed solutions that can voluntarily reduce single use plastics, and outlined five tenets. The talk called for embedding co-design in policy and serves as a call to action for us all.

Andy Ball, our Research Program Leader for Microplastics within the Solving Plastic Waste CRC and a distinguished professor at RMIT, speaks to Radio National’s Sally Sara.

Australia generates about three million tonnes of plastic waste a year, and inevitably, when that plastic breaks down, it can go anywhere… including our agricultural soils.
To help tackle the huge challenge before us, the Solving Plastics Waste CRC is looking at ways Australia can change its plastic problem. Distinguished Professor Andy Ball’s job is to determine how to properly detect microplastics in soil and get rid of them.

Hear more from CRC Program Leader, Distinguished Professor Andy Ball, in his interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National.