by | Oct 3, 2012 | Past Events
Calling all creative Port Douglas residents… You’re invited to create a design for an iconic Port Douglas reusable shopping bag on the theme of “keep paradise plastic free” as part of the Think Outside the Bag project. The Cairns and Far North...
by | Sep 18, 2012 | Plastic Free, Submission
Other states have already banned the bag and we can too. Sign here to support a Queensland ban on plastic bags. We’ll collect your signatures and present them as a group to our State Members of Parliament and the State Minister for Environment and Heritage...
by | Sep 18, 2012 | Plastic Free
In August 2012, volunteers from the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre, Tangaroa Blue and the Douglas Shire Sustainability Group hit the streets of Port Douglas to survey customers and business owners and staff about plastic bags. This was the first step in the...
by | Jun 22, 2012 | Ecotone Article
CAFNEC are about to launch a plastic bag campaign, to phase out single use plastic bags in three trial areas in the far north. These trial areas will most likely be Babinda, Port Douglas and a portion of Cairns CBD. We recently ran a competition on Facebook to...