The City of Cockburn in Perth’s south is the first Western Australian government to build a road out of recycled soft plastics.

The road mix is made with about 40,000 plastic bags and also includes printer toner cartridges, car tyre rubber, and recycled pavement.

Cockburn Waste Education Officer Nicki Ledger said they plan to use a similar mix for roads that are potentially a hundred times larger.

This year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List recognises over 1,000 Australians, including a father-daughter pair who explored the North Pole last year.

Governor-General Sir Peter Grosgrove said anyone who makes a difference in the nation can be nominated, whether they’re known to millions or just a few.

A former prime minister, actors, journalists, lawyers and fashion designers are among this year’s recipients.

A peaceful protest in Hong Kong against plans to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland turned into chaos early today as police clashed with protesters.

A police spokesman says around 240,000 people marched on the streets violently and police had to use batons and pepper spray to detain them.

Discussions around the amendment, which would allow people convicted of committing a crime in another country to be relocated, will start on Wednesday.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, has contributed $715million towards closing coal-fired power plants across the United States.

Bloomberg Philanthropies said the Beyond Carbon initiative would close about 250 coal-fueled power plants by 2030 and make the country fully reliant on clean energy.

Michael Bloombery was the UN Secretary General’s special envoy on climate change last year.

The Brisbane City Council is interested in landing a pedestrian bridge that would connect West End and Toowong on the site of the now-demolished ABC Toowong building.

Deputy mayor Krista Adams said the council wouldn’t purchase the full site, but is interested in buying a portion after negotiating with the private owner.

The West End-Toowong bridge would be one of the five new green bridges part of a pledge made by lord mayor Adrian Schrinner three months ago.

The yellow CityCycle bikes will be turned blue following a partnership between the Brisbane City Council and NRMA Insurance.

Lord mayor Adrian Schrinner said the shared bike scheme will provide residents an affordable and healthy way to travel around the city.

The partnership is set to double revenue and would help cover the initial financial losses from when the bikes were introduced in 2010.

The drain socks designed by the Western Australian City of Kwinana to fight river pollution has attracted attention from around the globe.

The city had nets attached to the mouths of two stormwater drains March last year to catch litter and debris that contaminate the system.

Kwinana Mayor Carol Adams said they posted a picture of the low-cost solution to social media, and upwards of 25 million people have interacted with it so far.

Google drones are above Canberra’s skies for an air delivery business delivering items to people’s homes moving into a phase in the economy where everything is delivered.

Google’s overarching company Alphabet has been trialling delivering burritos, coffee and medication for a year and in April, the company was approved to start.

The Civil Aviation and Safety Authority officials said the question of who gets to play in drone airspace is yet being considered.

The International Space Station will be opened to tourists by NASA from 2020 to give the general public the experience of space.

Tourists would be expected to pay $35,000 a night for water and use of life support system and can stay up to 30 days.

New tourists will not be the first to visit the International Space Station, as the United States businessman Dennis Tito took that honour in 2001.