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Time to celebrate – Ecosilk Bags turns 25!
By Emily Hay | 1st February 2026
Ecosilk Bags turns 25! From humble beginnings on a kitchen table to helping eliminate more than 614 million plastic bags, Emily Hay reflects on the journey, the wonderful and often funny customer stories and the community that helped build one of Australia’s original reusable bag businesses.
Humpback Highway to Hell
By Emily Hay | 5th September 2025
Humpback whales have made an extraordinary recovery since the end of commercial whaling, but new threats are emerging in the Southern Ocean. Industrial krill fishing is placing increasing pressure on the fragile Antarctic ecosystem that whales depend on for survival.
Gas has got to Go!
By Emily Hay | 18th April 2025
Australia is facing escalating climate disasters, and the role of gas can no longer be ignored. Emily Hay explores the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels but gas in particular.
The hard truth about recycling plastics in Australia & globally
By Emily Hay | 9th November 2024
For years, many of us believed recycling was the solution to our growing plastic waste crisis. But as landfill pressures mount and plastic consumption rapidly increases worldwide, it is becoming clear that recycling alone cannot keep up.
Shining a light on…Seahorses
By Emily Hay | 30th August 2024
Seahorses are among the world’s most threatened marine species, facing growing pressure from habitat destruction, pollution and destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling. Protecting them could also help safeguard thousands of other marine species.
Shining a light on…Sea Lions aka Bulgura of the Wirangu people of SA
By Emily Hay | 14th June 2024
What do reusable shopping bags have to do with endangered sea lions? More than most people realise. From plastic pollution to fertiliser runoff, everyday human choices are having a major impact on marine wildlife.
Sustainable Sequins – Who’d have thought?
By Emily Hay 17th May 2024
Ecosilk Bags – 1999 to 2019 – twenty years on…
By Emily Hay, 1st September 2019
A critique of ‘Bag for Good’
By Emily Hay, 7th October 2018
A critique of Coles & Woolworth’s move to phase out single use plastic bags and the likely consequences.
By Emily Hay, April 3rd, 2018