Australia will work towards banning recyclable waste being exported overseas, after a meeting of state, territory and federal leaders in Cairns.Last year, Australia exported 4.5 million tonnes of waste, costing states and territories billionsThe ban will not be immediate, with all levels of governments giving their environment ministers the role of figuring out a timeframe for plastics, paper, metals and glass to be taken out of the broader waste system.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison put his counterparts on notice last week, warning they had to do more to deal with rising amounts of recyclable waste ending up in landfill or being shipped offshore. Last financial year, Australia exported close to 4.5 million tonnes of waste overseas — mainly to Asian nations — at a cost of about $2.8 billion to state and territory budgets.In recent months, countries such as China, Malaysia and Indonesia have moved to ban developed countries sending contaminated rubbish in their direction.
You want to create jobs in renewable materials prime minister? There’s an industry full of coal miners and a factory full of Holden workers who’d love to talk to you. But you’re not the man to do that, are you sir? morrisane
Drop cotton, use hemp. Create 3D printing hub from recycled materials. Invent antigravity landspeeder.
because China just dumps it in the ocean and you at the ABC hate the PM ..we do the right thing with our wast ...but no one at the ABC is getting big industry to pack products in reusables like we got our milk in bottles till we were told it was wrong
EvErYtHiNg iN oUr rEmIt
When the recycling company in WA tells residents that it can't recycling bottle and jar lids as machine can't cope then you have to reassess your competence
Crap. The countries he's turning into stinking wastelands are sending it back
When you dump, rubbish o/seas they will dump it in the ocean, so are best bet is deal with it at home. See, Scumo, He talks rubbish quite frequently and a obvious expert.
Isn't this the same story you published in Aug 2019 after the COAG meeting?
Yeah listen, the longer you wait for a profit motive to pop up for the tons of waste we have, the less value it will have, and the more of an issue that we will have in the future. It's an absolute disgrace that in the year 2020 we don't have recycling infrastructure.
well, he's a waste himself and we can't seem to export him; so I see the logic
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