{"id":22284,"date":"2020-08-28T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=22284"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T08:40:07","slug":"australia-seeks-to-take-responsibility-for-its-waste-with-landmark-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/australia-seeks-to-take-responsibility-for-its-waste-with-landmark-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia seeks to \u2018take responsibility for its waste\u2019 with \u2018landmark legislation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>The Australian Government has this week introduced \u2018landmark\u2019 legislation that seeks to see Australia \u2018take responsibility for its waste\u2019 and establish a national industry framework for recycling. The Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020 will phase in the end of the 645,000 tonnes of unprocessed plastic, paper, glass and tyres that Australia ships overseas each year.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the reforms to the regulation of product stewardship set out to incentivise companies to \u2018take greater environmental responsibility\u2019 for the products they manufacture and what happens to those products and materials at the end of their life. Australian Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley, said the Bill will see the implementation of the export ban on waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres agreed by Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments in March this year. Assistant Minister Evans said the legislation will set out to improve the existing framework for product stewardship by encouraging companies to \u2018take greater responsibility\u2019 for the waste they generate through the products they design, manufacture or distribute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making it easier for industry to set up and join in product stewardship schemes. Yet where voluntary product stewardship schemes are not effective, or where they are not created in priority areas, the government will have new tools to intervene and regulate,\u201d Assistant Minister Evans said. \u201cOur legislative changes will transform our waste industry, meaning increased recycling and remanufacturing of waste materials which will create new industry and generate more jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/news\/australia-seeks-to-take-responsibility-for-its-waste-with-landmark-legislation\/\">Circular Online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Government has this week introduced \u2018landmark\u2019 legislation that seeks to see Australia \u2018take responsibility for its waste\u2019 and establish a national industry framework&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,31],"tags":[126,90,131],"class_list":["post-22284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-environmental-news-en","tag-australia","tag-legislation","tag-waste","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22285,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions\/22285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}