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NEWS
Govt commits to
four packaging
waste targets for 2025
Asian nations say no to Aussie plastic waste
MALAYSIA, Thailand and Vietnam have all just an- nounced draconian waste import measures to avoid being overwhelmed by waste plastic, which they say is already having a detrimental impact on their envi- ronments.
According to Malaysia’s Science, Technology, Envi- ronment and Climate Change Minister, Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia imported 34,000 tonnes of plastic waste from Australia in the first six months of this year alone. Fig- ures from the Australian Federal Environment Depart- ment say that Australia sent around 125,000 tonnes of plastic waste to China each year before it was banned, which was around 60 per cent of the total amount sent for export.
Since China decided it was ceasing its plastics waste industry, which took in much of the world’s plastic, neighbouring countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, In- donesia and Vietnam say they are being swamped with plastic waste from rich countries, including Australia.
Malaysia now says it will not accept becoming a ‘plastic dumping ground’ and has frozen the imports of plastic waste. Thailand has said it is going to ban all imports of plastic waste by 2021, less than three years away, and Vietnam said it would no longer be issuing licenses for waste imports. ■
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AT a meeting convened by the Aus- tralian Packaging Covenant Organ- isation (APCO) and hosted by Pact Group in Melbourne, Minister for the Environment Melissa Price joined leaders from packaging, retail, logistics, manufacturing, recycling and waste management businesses in a pledge to better manage packaging waste.
Companies and organisations sup- porting the pledge include Aldi, ALGA, Amcor, Australia Post, Boomerang Alliance, Chep, Close the Loop, Coca- Cola Amatil, Coles, Detmold, Good- man Fielder, Lion, Metcash, Nestlé, Orora, Pact Group, Planet Ark, Redcycle, Simplot, Suez, Tetra Pak, Unilever, Veolia, Visy and Woolworths.
ABOVE: The Hon. Melissa Price, Minister for the Environment and Paul Klymenko, CEO Planet Ark, field questions from the media following the national packaging waste target announcement.
The 2025 National Packaging Waste Target builds on commit- ments made by Commonwealth, state and territory environment ministers and the president of the Australian Local Government As- sociation in April this year to set a sustainable path for Australia’s re- cyclable waste.
The 2025 national packaging waste targets are:
1. 100 per cent of all Australia’s
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packaging will be reusable, recy- clable or compostable by 2025 or earlier
70 per cent of Australia’s plastic packaging will be recycled or composted by 2025.
30 per cent average recycled con- tent will be included across all packaging by 2025.
Problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic packaging will be phased out through design, innovation or introduction of alternatives. ■
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