Australia's national plastic plan 2021 introduced, packaging ban plastic speed up

Release time:

2021-04-19

Annual task schedule in Australia's National Plastics Plan

2019 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agrees timetable to ban exports of waste plastics, paper, glass and tyres Australian Environment Minister agrees to National Waste Policy Action Plan

2020First National Plastics Plan Draft Submitted

With the passage of the Recycle and Waste Reduction Act of 2020, microbeads are being phased out in rinse-off cosmetics, personal care and cleaning products.

2021 Action 5.5 for the implementation of the National Plastics Action Plan CSIRO has released a roadmap for Australia's circular economy on plastics, tyres, glass and paper (January 2021).

Regulating the export of unclassified mixed plastic waste (July 2021) First review of the National Environmental Protection (Waste Packaging Material) Measures 2011 and the Australian Packaging Convention to assess common regulatory measures.

National Plastics Design Summit

2022 Control of exports of unprocessed single polymer or resin waste plastics (July 2022) Eliminate non-compostable plastic packaging products that do not meet the relevant composting standards and contain additive breakable technology. [AS4736-2006, AS5810-2010 and EN13432)(July 2022)

Phase-out of expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging, bulk packaging and molded packaging (July 2022), food and beverage containers (December 2021) Phase-out of PVC packaging labels (December 2022) Review of National Packaging Target 2025 Progress

2023 At least 80% of products in supermarkets must have the Australian Recycle Label (December 2023)

2025 National Packaging Plan targets for the industry: 100 percent of packaged products must be reusable, recyclable or compostable 70% of plastic packaging products are recyclable or compostable The average recyclable component in the packaging is not less than 50% (20% for plastic packaging)

Phasing out problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic packaging (Five Objectives of the National Waste Policy Action Plan)

2030 Cooperate with the textile and white goods industry to guide the industry and gradually enter microfiber filters on newly produced white goods and textile products by July 1, 2030.