Federal Government Archives

Circular Economy, Federal Government, Opinion, Packaging

The state of packaging recycling

It looks like we need to wait until after the next election to get action on packaging. While Minister Tania Plibersek and the State Ministers talked about making the packaging industry responsible for their wastes (9 June 2023 press release) very little has happened since. Read More

Mike RitchieMarch 24, 2025, 2:30 pmMarch 24, 2025

Battery Stewardship Council, Federal, Federal Government, Latest News, Legislation, State

Hitting the NSW waste targets is good politics

On 1 November 2024, during the NSW Circular Economy Summit in Sydney, the Minister for environment Penny Sharpe and the CEO of the NSW EPA Tony Chappel in separate landmark speeches said “NSW has a waste crisis and we are here to fix it”… or words to that effect (my emphasis). Most in the audience breathed a sigh of relief that finally someone was listening and going to act upon repeated warnings that NSW is in trouble. Waste disposal options in Sydney are nearing critical shortage while the State has fallen behind in delivering on the National Waste Targets set in 2019. Read More

Mike RitchieFebruary 25, 2025, 12:16 pmFebruary 26, 2025

Council, Federal, Federal Government, Legislation, Legislation, Opinion, State

Government mandated procurement needs to be the norm

According to the Oxford Reference Dictionary, among several other meanings, the word ‘procurement’ refers to the ‘purchase of goods and services by the public sector at all levels of government’. Read More

mike.wheelerJanuary 16, 2024, 10:09 amJanuary 16, 2024