fireworks

  • How Fireworks Impact The Environment, And Your Health

    How Fireworks Impact The Environment, And Your Health

    Every New Year’s Eve, global cities light up in shades of green, pink and gold as organisers unleash tonnes of combustible fireworks into the atmosphere. While it makes for an undeniably pretty sight, fireworks cause significant air pollution and leach harmful chemicals into the air that can cause health issues down the track. With much…


  • How Australia Is Transforming The World Of Fireworks

    How Australia Is Transforming The World Of Fireworks

    Over a thousand years ago, Chinese alchemists created an early form of gunpowder. Made primarily of potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, the ingredients were packed into bamboo shoots and thrown into the fire. The idea was that the subsequent explosion of noise and light would ward off evil spirits. A millennium later, we use this…