Recycling action call after Senate inquiry
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SUBSTANTIAL action needs to be taken in tackling Australia’s recycling crisis, a Tasmanian senator says.
A Senate inquiry into Senator Peter Whish-Wilson’s Packaging and Plastics Bill took place on Wednesday.
There was broadbased support for the Bill, he said, which would set mandatory packaging targets, container deposit schemes and a ban on a range of single-use plastics.
Evidence was presented by groups such as Sea Shepherd Australia, Surfrider Foundation Australia, WWF Australia, Boomerang Alliance and the Plastic Free July Foundation.
Senator Whish-Wilson said the inquiry heard from experts who threw out the idea that Australia’s recycling issues were a problem to be solved by consumers.
“It should not and cannot be up to the people gathering garbage bags full of plastics on the beach to solve the problem,” he said.
“And it shouldn’t be up to someone spending the whole day in the supermarket to find recycled packaging options, as one witness pointed out.”
Senator Whish-Wilson said change could only be made with a national law.
“What we get as a result, as outlined by these witnesses, are jobs,” he said. “We get the opportunity for homegrown manufacturing, we get a whole new efficient resource market and revenue stream, we get innovation, and we get plastics out of the environment.”
In a written submission, Department of Environment and Energy deputy secretary Dean Knudson said the federal government was committed to reducing plastic and packaging waste by managing its impacts and increasing opportunity for recycling.