Josh Wilson (Fremantle, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will support this amendment, amendment (3). It's a pretty critical word-change, I suppose, from 'reuse' to 'remanufacture'. Just picking up on what the assistant minister said, if you're genuine about creating a circular economy, you've got to take things full circle. You've got to have materials and products that come all the way back around into new products, and reuse is part of the waste hierarchy but it's not really the key part as far as that circularity is concerned. 'Remanufacture' is a much better word because it picks up the idea that you're capturing, you're recovering, materials in a product that is no longer of use and has been disposed of, and, through some reprocessing and other process, you're turning it into something else. So the sector again raised that 'remanufacture' was a better term. The government has heard that and made this amendment, which we will support.

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