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It looks like snow : how Australia plans to fix the horrifying blight of expanded polystyrene Graham Readfearn
On a two-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River east of Melbourne’s CBD a few years ago, volunteers were gathering rubbish from the banks and reeds.
Among all the discarded bottles and bits of plastic sucked up with an oversized vacuum were an estimated 5 million pieces of expanded polystyrene – some in the form of tiny white balls, others in chunks at various stages of disintegration.
“It is not how a river should look,” says Andrew Kelly, the fulltime Yarra riverkeeper on the ubiquity of this feather-light expanded plastic, known as EPS.
From AI sewer tech to lab-grown meat: SmartCompany’s 10 startups to watch in 2021
VAPAR co-founders Amanda Siqueira and Michelle Aguilar. Source: supplied.
In 2020, amid a whole swathe of completely unforeseen challenges, and in a fast-changing political, social and health environment, we have seen some of Australia’s startups come into their own and start to thrive.
These are the startups just hitting their stride; those on the cusp of an explosion of growth. These are the founders we think we will be hearing a lot more from in the new year.
We’re ready for you, 2021. Let’s see what you’ve got.