Taking a walk through a supermarket with two of the people charged with reshaping packaging regulations shows the challenges consumers face to recycle.
“Which bin would you put this in?” asks Ian Hayes, as we stand in the brightly lit aisle of a supermarket, shoppers weaving around us. He’s holding a cardboard box of spaghetti, but it has a clear plastic film window through which I can see the pasta inside. I want to say recycling, but the plastic window makes me second-guess.
“The waste bin,” I respond. Thankfully, my guess is right. What I don’t tell them is that I was confused by the different types of packaging on the pasta box, and instead of trying to figure out how to be a responsible consumer, I took the easy way out. “This is a global problem which requires global solutions. That’s why Australia is taking a strong position during plastics treaty negotiations. We want to see a legally binding treaty with strong targets to end plastic pollution by 2040.”
. “Although most Australians can access extremely good, safe drinking water straight from the tap, it’s one of our most common and expensive single-use purchases,” Kiernan said. The Boomerang Alliance believes the new regulations should place the onus on industry to drive up that figure. Until that is done, marking something as recyclable can amount to greenwashing, Angel says. He believes that until industry gets its act together, shoppers should simply avoid some products. “I don’t think there is normally a good reason to buy bottled water in Australia, the stuff you get out of a tap is better for you.
Plastic packaging is a key part of the waste problem. After all, it covers everything we buy, consume and use. Australians use an extraordinary amount of plastic in packaging. In 2019-20, more than 3.4 million tonnes of plastic products were consumed in Australia. Of this, about 36 per cent went into packaging .
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