THE soft plastic recycling scheme which has been running at major supermarkets has been put on hold. REDcycle, the company responsible for the soft plastic recycling program running at Coles and Woolworths, has recently suspended its collection. It says that it cannot currently offload the plastic it receives, and has pointed the finger at its “offtake partners”. REDCycle has two soft plastic offtake partners – Carrum Downs recycler Replas, and Close the Loop. In a statement on its website, REDCycle said that Replas has “experienced significant pandemic-related downturns in market demand as well as other challenges including the delayed commercialisation…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
THE candidates for next weekend’s state election have been confirmed. Incumbent Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke is running once again. Edbrooke won the seat for Labor in 2014, and significantly expanded his margin in 2018. The Liberal candidate for Frankston is former Frankston mayor Michael O’Reilly. Emily Green is the Greens’ candidate for Frankston. Dragan Suric is running for the Freedom Party, Elizabeth Johnston for the Animal Justice Party, Richard Brown for the Family First Party, and Chrysten Abraham for the Liberal Democrats. Darren Bergwerf has nominated as an independent. He failed to gain the federal seat of Dunkley earlier this…
SIX years ago this week, 20-year-old woman Elly Warren was found dead in Mozambique. Her family is still looking for answers. Warren, who was born in Mordialloc, travelled to Mozambique for a six-week trip in 2016. When she got back home she planned to study marine biology. Just days before her return, her body was found near a bathroom in Tofo. The circumstances of Elly Warren’s death remain unclear. Her father, Paul Warren, has spent the last six years pursuing the truth about his daughter’s death. He believes his daughter was assaulted and murdered. Despite findings that Elly Warren died…
CRICKET PROVINCIAL OLD Peninsula continued its good start to the 2022/2023 season with a win over Long Island on Saturday. After a month of rain delays and cancellations, the weather gods finally smiled on MPCA cricketers last weekend. Old Peninsula played host to Long Island. It was a nightmare start for Long Island at the crease. They batted first and suffered through a catastrophic top order collapse. At 6/27, the game looked dead and buried. A late knock of 55 from Cameron Wheeler helped Long Island put a respectable total on the board. Long Island managed to avoid being bowled…
MONEY promised by the federal government for major local projects has been locked in. The federal Labor government has released its first budget. The budget papers confirm that taxpayer money will be spent on establishing a new public urgent care centre in Frankston and building the suburban rail loop, which starts on the Frankston line. The federal government will spend $235 million in the next four years on the roll-out of urgent care clinics across the country. It has set aside $2.2 billion for the controversial rail loop. Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says the budget also reaffirms the federal government’s…