Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

In contrast, we are investing $250 million in recycling facilities, including $60 million in particular for soft plastics and other hard-to-recycle plastics. The members for Moreton, Bean, Bruce and Solomon have all been out and had a look at the great new facilities in their electorates. We promised 48 plastics recycling facilities; 11 are already delivered.

It's not just that Recycling Modernisation Fund. It's $100 million in the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in new technologies like the enzyme technologies that can recycle plastics infinitely, and the $3 billion in the National Reconstruction Fund. That is $3 billion out of the $15 billion that the Minister for Industry and Science wants to invest in new industries for clean energy, green metals and remanufacturing—reducing waste in the first place and reducing pollution at the same time. We're reforming packaging laws. We've agreed with state environment ministers to reform our packaging laws by 2025. We're regulating in areas like solar panels, mattresses and electronic goods. They knew that these were a problem but did nothing to regulate to fix the problem. We're bringing together the big supermarkets to really deliver on soft plastics recycling—once again, to start the collections. (Time expired)

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