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Australia’s plastics recycling problem is now a business problem

A red flag has been raised about the country’s waste management following Recycling Plastics Australia entering voluntary administration.
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Recycling Plastics Australia entering voluntary administration should be a wake-up call for Australian business.

Why? Because it highlights a much bigger problem. Australia has not yet built a recycling system that gives businesses the certainty, infrastructure and markets they need to invest and compete.

On the same day, industry was advised that the Australian government would not introduce a new Commonwealth packaging scheme during this term.

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