800 plastic bag and packaging equivalentsGreater than 35 per cent total recycled materialDante Cremasco, the executive general manager for Downer's roads division, says the product is the result of 15 years of research and development."It's the willingness of our customers — and these are the government organisations — to embrace sustainable materials," Mr Cremasco says.
The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia chief executive officer says the 1.2 million tonnes of recyclable materials households are producing could be turned into jobs and investment if the circular economy can only take off."We've had meetings, we had more meetings, and then we've had more talk, and we had no action," she said.
Mandating the use of recycled material in packaging and construction would mean recyclers could supply a domestic market with scale that would create thousands of jobs. Ms Sloan says the Federal Government cannot afford to take a hands-off approach and leave regulation to the states."Most of the companies are multinationals and work across Australia. They don't want a response on a state-by-state basis.
"We need a national Government that pulls all the players together from a regulatory, commercial and investment point of view."
Stop buying to start with!1950/60s we wasted nothing,small metal Rubbish bin.Scraps to chooks/in garden. No plastic.We weren't consumers we were makers, producers, carers-lived frugal. These days virtue signalling egotistical consumers of excess everything point finger at others
They take money to collect & address the recycling & have contracts with councils to collect the recycling. If they can’t do it, sack them & the council can start doing it themselves. They are trying to strong arm the Gov for more of our money, that’s all.
This is a disgrace. This shows politicians are not thinking beyond their three year term.
This is in the too hard basket I think. Banning single use plastic is about as far as their thinking has got. There’s massive employment opportunities here I can’t understand the hold up.
Aushim Merchant has created a machine that turns plastic into petrol. It's a closed system, so waste product from the process is repurposed to power the machine.
This is a pressing issue ... financial incentives & penalties need to be introduced to shape behaviour & result in change
Waste of time . The government has no policy .. nothing
And were will they get money from? Their parents. They should do community service, say 10hours a week helping sick, aged, cleaning streets, helping homeless. Bet it would last about one hour before these entitled ones run away because it is too hard.
Maybe industry should ask local councils... some of them would do better than current government. For 6 years did nothing and even after China stopped taking our rubbish nothing changed ATM government just 🙊🙉🙈
good luck now china is not taking our rubbish - the rubbish has hit the fance
Opportunity for research and a new business? The 21st century will be the great waste management era. We're choking the planet with shit and we think cockroaches are dirty. Mankind is filthy.
Energy generation from incineration rather than landfill should also be a consideration at least until the recycling industry grows to cope with the size of the task.
Export to india, malaysia etc... Where waste management is coast effective one like this👇👇
If we had a decent environmental party in this country they would be all over this. This is not new news.
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