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Queensland gets ready for plastics ban
Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef and Minister for Science and Youth Affairs The Honourable Meaghan Scanlon
With just over a month to go, businesses across Queensland are getting ready for Queensland’s ban of single-use plastics.
Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon said the Palaszczuk Government was teaming up with Australia’s peak retail body the National Retail Association (NRA) as well as the Boomerang Alliance for a travelling roadshow to make sure businesses and community groups were ready for the shift to more sustainable products.
“Half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once, ending up in landfill and harming our environment,” Minister Scanlon said.
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An award-winning Ipswich businessman will spend six months behind bars after committing fraud when his company was plunged into liquidation owing more than $1 million.
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But police caught up to the prolific light-fingered Ipswich offender and he found himself in a jail cell.
Appearing before Ipswich Magistrates Court from jail via video-link, Aidan Eden Pascoe, 31, from Brassall, pleaded guilty to entering premises of Showcase Jewellers and stealing at Mount Ommaney on November 16 last year; stealing perfume from the Chemist Warehouse in Oxley; stealing alcoholic beverages from BWS Redbank Plains; stealing a bottle of vodka from the Jindalee hotel; possession of dangerous drugs; and failing to safely dispose of a used needle/syringe.