How Australia is sorting its giant waste and recycling problem | ABC News

can we talk about the 'Tupperware Party' at 4:12 please?

Capitalist won't let plastic manufacturing to stop, it's a billion dollars industry 😢

We have the same problems with plastic here in the US. But the part about manufacturers using more recycled plastic doesn't apply here.
Also, he didn't mention that recycled plastic must be mixed with virgin plastic when it's recycled, and plastic can be recycled only 3 times.

Do you think we have gotten anywhere? QLD needs help immediately with this issue

Electric car makers should be compelled to make cars out of recycled plastic. They claim to be trying to save the planet, let those that make the profit support the solution.

And finally, regarding the final comment of this video. How WRONG is it to tell consumers that they must STOP CREATING WASTE, when all they have done is BUY a product, and given no alternative, unless we decide to hunt and gather, on mass, and boycott the entire capitalist construct.
I find being accused of CREATING WASTE extremely offensive, when the true 'creator' is glaringly obvious

Any levy or tax placed on producers, will ALSO be 100% passed on to consumers.

The 'merry little jingle' played during the bit that mentions PRINGLES packets, is just plain offensive, in that it makes LIGHT of the HEAVIEST part of the waste problem! How appropriate would it be to have a 'happy tune' accompanying someone LITTERING! Those who PROFIT must PAY, but corporations manipulate governments into not demanding that they do so, and instead, the CONSUMER is named, blamed, shamed & FINED, for being 'irresponsible'. This whole issue is blatantly cruel, and patently absurd!

I cant help adding a few moot ethicallly/morally reprehensible points. 1: Plastic was originally invented using WASTE from the OIL/PETROLEUM industry, so THEY ought to bear the primary responsibility for not disposing of it in the first place! 2: The main recycling logo (triangular arrows with a number) was designed BY PLASTIC MANUFACTURERS, and is intentionally misleading, since many of those numbers denote UNrecyclable type of plastic, and the entire scheme places ALL the responsibility on the CONSUMER not the companies/corporations who PROFIT from selling it to consumers. 3: The most disturbing concept for me is that we are encouraged to EARN MONEY by getting a 'refund', when in fact that amount was PAID IN ADVANCE as a DEPOSIT which creates EXTRA PROFIT for producers, whether it is recycled or not. And 4: (The most aggregious, harmful and deceitful of all) Coca Cola Amatil have aggressively lobbied against recycling for decades, and now they have relented to a MINISULE, and INSIGNIFICANT degree, their 'aluminium cans' are PLASTIC with a paint-thin layer of aluminium on the outside! It a monumentally and utterly disgusting, dangerous, despicable and dastardly act of total disrespect for people and the planet!
It is sickening to witness such guilt, responsibility, and angst heaped upon the consumer, at the very end of the chain of production, by of a group of industries that amasses UNCONSCIONABLE PROFIT at every stage of the process.

I’m a garbage truck driver, I’m not a greenie hippie by any means but growing up I encouraged my family to do the right thing with our waste, making sure anything recyclable was recycled in the household, and every bit of food waste was put in the green bin which my council has accepted since the early 2000s, it’s just a no brained why send renewable resources to be buried in the ground. I primarily only collect garbage, seeing the amount of disregard from residents is frustrating, the amount of mainstream recycling I see enter my truck is astonishing, 1/4 of my load would easily be items that could’ve been recycled or processed via the green bin. Even more frustrating is how much excessive nonsense non recyclable packaging is on the market. There’s a lot of windblown litter that occurs from loose soft plastics during the collection process. I really don’t see the 2025 bid for 100% green packaging happening.

Could some/any industries use 20:05 /repurpose certain rubbish and/or synthetic, plastics etc TO BURN (these rubbish items) for THEIR FUEL in manufacturing Safely??? 20:31

Putting cardboard with glass plastic and the rest put that in a dumb truck and crash it together very smart humans put it in the bin humans need to sort it to.

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Blame the greedy corporations who create, use and sell the packages!

big money to be made .if u can figure out how to get rid of plastic

I think it's time we revisited this space. As a waste educator, I know times have changed recently, and we need up-to-date information and reporting on it all to keep the encouragement, celebration and momentum up for our Australian residents, without our participation and practice we will go backwards. We need to keep debunking old ideas and misinformation about waste and recycling and push the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle message louder and with more acceptance to do so.

Robotics will further improve recovery rates.

People are just lazy and don't care.

I used to use the plastic shopping bags for disposing of my household rubbish (instead of bin liners).
I thought we'd come up with a biodegradable bag?
Now I have to buy plastic bin liners.
Where's the gain in this equation?

We need to also invest in a way that the melting down process of plastics can create energy/power that can lower the costs of these sorting/recycling centres.

4:28 – It should be mentioned that the big companies selling the plastic way back then, and associated groups, are the ones who funded those recycling ads, as a way for people to focus the blame on each other, instead of these companies who already knew recycling was largely a scam to pacify the public into thinking it's all fine.

soft plastics can be recycled, maybe they should say why they dont do it.

Why is the usage of plastic going to increase when we're already banning single use plastic….?!? 🤔. Even if our population is increasing

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Lol, is this just a promo piece for that war on waste show ABC made?… cause I'm pretty sure it was only middle class yuppys that watched that. So we're gunna rely on consumer behavior to fix the issue of waste ? Lol.

Would love to see this again for 2022 and how far we've come. We still got a long way to go, but I'm so glad Australia is making strides.
I aim for zero waste in my house and how little waste I end up having in my red bin means I can have it collected every second week. Recycling needs to be more often! Hahaha

Generally if you buy food in packaging it's not very good for you. So buy unpackaged food or choose paper wrapping.

Why don't they just shoot the plastic into the sun? Elon Musk needs to get on that.

Millions of tons of toilet paper is flushed away every day.

We should collect it for recycling.

It could be used to make many items such as paper plates, drinking cups and straws.

They could be dyed brown to hide any leftover impurities.

This is why hiring skip bins services is advantageous because it ensures that your waste is properly sorted. A dedicated team is in charge of separating recyclable materials from the rest. You can rest easy knowing that your garbage is being disposed of properly.

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Recycling isn't the answer, we need to stop using plastic altogether

It's not China's fault, we were simply offloading the problem overseas. Stop using plastic, use more glass, mandate a specific glass mix for containers to make recycling easier. Tax plastic packaging to encourage systemic change.

If really like to believe we can get the recycling issue done …. But people are literally stupid when it comes to plastics ….

why aren't we passing laws that result in producers making their products and packing out of materials that are more easily recyclable?
businesses that make the effort and cost to increase recyclability should be rewarded not disadvantaged.

My god I hate politicians; "…..it adds cost". There's a cost to recycle and there a cost to bury it. Regulation adds a direct cost to the consumer and/or manufacturer (and motivates them to change and improve) and saves the environment, where as burying it adds an indirect cost to the tax payer and an ongoing cost to the environment and probably future generation. The same stupid argument is used for nearly every environment issue.

It's returnsies. Most stuff we by that is recycled came from China – the real issue, when we break it down, is mass corporatization and consumerism. This comes of the problematic Debt & Inflationary Monetary system.

We need to get back to locally produce goods, services and assets where we can. Convert the money system to a credit and resource system, with certain goods, services and assets built to last and/or built from renewable and biodegradable.

Yet, Corporates will not do this – An example;

When they were looking at a standardized computer coding, binary was chosen over ternary because it was cheap to build the computers and transistors. Even though long term, ternary would have been a better option due to the increased computing power and data storage.

So we find ourselves with an alternate option, but binary being wide spread with all coding, apps and hardware based off it, not corporate will commit commercial suicide to change.

Only a global agreement to roll in, roll out will work.

You can apply this to almost anything. From out fuel and electricity production, food & fibre, mining – even the problem of automation.

We will get a major benefit from automation, including cutting down on waste, but the fear is job losses.

Yet, if we configured the monetary system as explained briefly earlier, people would be able to work much less, like 3x8hr shifts per week, while production of goods, services and assets would remain at current capacities, if not more with automation efficiencies.

Again though, just as hydrogen was realized 100 years ago as a good fuel source, it competed with the established Oil Industry, which just got stronger and accessed cheaper extractions in the mid east.

Ever wonder what is all about – it is all about control of money, resources and wealth, but not for our benefits, for those few in the purple circle.

All the factories need to start produce more refills packet. Example refills shower gel, refills shampoo, refills dishwashing liquid, refills soy sauce, tomatoes sauce etc. With refills we can reduce the use of plastic bottles & glass bottles. Good to heard gov start invest on recycling, this opportunity could increase job opportunities too. Well done Australia👏🏽

The New Australia being what it is, the government is probably using the new police State to force the citizens to eat the waste.

Where do you get your information from? In the EU is producing of those light bags, plasticforks (etc), straws forbidden. From January 2022 on it is even forbidden to give them to costumers, if they have leftovers or not. The green dot may have been an idea at first to reduce the landfill, but thats 30 years ago. And it was always ment to be recycled and it did happen since many, many years in our factorys. I can't understand why you guys think its worthless. You don't even understand how it really works. Do your homework before sharing and speading those not fully researched "documentations" worldwide 🤬

Why are all the comments here better informed than the writers/researchers of this story?! Come on ABC!!

The government needs to do more for recycling

Check German’s recycling policies

Some High end restaurant use paper box.

So, tiny paper sticker should be use on fruit instead of plastic.

Very encouraging there !!! DO SHOW THIS SEGMENT ON TV/ ads / CURRENT AFFAIR / 4 Corners ReportBack. Throughout year many times. Hopefully by 3rd – 4th occasion many would take up responsibility in care of Choice& Disposal as not ALL 7 types of plastic are YET FULLY RECYCLED !!

If products in non recyclable containers/packages were taxed to make them more expensive than their recyclable/reusable competitors, that would make a major difference in our buying habits.