The Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) has reported 92% compliance with NSW water laws across the water bottling industry. NRAR visited 53 approval holders this year with inspections spanning the Southern Highlands, Lithgow, Oberon, Hawkesbury, the Northern Rivers and the Central Coast. The findings have been positively received with NRAR’s Director of Regional Water Regulation […]

The Australian Dietary Guidelines [ADG] recognise the positive contribution juice (no added sugar) makes to a healthy dietary pattern and its role in helping many Australians meet their recommended daily fruit serves. Juice is included in the ‘core food’ fruit recommendations: 125mL of fruit juice with no added sugar can be included as a serve […]

Container Deposit Schemes (CDS), also known as Container Refund Schemes, are principally designed to change behaviour to meet objectives related to reducing the volume of beverage containers that end up in landfill or that are discarded in the environment. Together with other policies, this change in behaviour facilitates reuse of materials through recycling and provides […]

Non-alcoholic drinks industry announces progress toward 2025 sugar reduction target Friday, 30 October 2020, 09:00AM, SYDNEY: Australia’s largest beverage companies have marked a major milestone by announcing a 12 per cent reduction* in sugar, in the second progress report on the beverage industry’s flagship pledge. In June 2018, with the support of the Minister for […]

A copy of the Proxy Voting Form for the Australian Beverages Council Annual General Meeting 2020 can be found below. Please download the document and fill in the details and send the completed form to info@ausbev.org . Proxy Form AGM 2020 A copy of the Australian Beverages Council’s Board Nomination Form 2020 can be found […]

For immediate release 7 October 2020 “The 2020-21 Federal Budget handed down by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last night is one of the most critical in living memory. It is reassuring to see that the Morrison Government has delivered a budget designed to support Australian manufacturing and importantly back the non-alcoholic drinks industry.” said Mr Geoff […]