Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

Can I thank the member for Lindsay for her question. The Morrison government's recycling agenda is about protecting the environment and creating jobs. Australians want to be confident in their recycling—that everything is collected and recycled into something new with value, not wasted in landfill or shipped overseas. That's why this government is leading a billion-dollar transformation of the waste and recycling industry through legislation, investment and its purchasing power. This transformation will protect our environment, divert more than 10 million tonnes of resources from landfill and create more than 10,000 new Australian jobs. Last year we established the Recycling Modernisation Fund—a three-way partnership between the Commonwealth, states and territories, and industries—to make sure we've got the recycling capacity for the future. The way industry has stepped up has been incredible. Last month I was pleased to officially open BINGO Industries's $100 million state-of-the-art materials processing centre—

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