Australia moves closer to bag bans
Posted on December 16, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSydney, Australia — Australia has moved a step closer to banning single-use high density polyethylene bags after a meeting of the country’s top environment ministers.Federal environment minister Josh Frydenberg recently met in Sydney with his eight counterparts from all Australian
Source: Australia moves closer to bag bans – Plastics News
Jeff Angel, director of the Sydney-based Total Environment Center and a director of the Boomerang Alliance, which represents a cluster of environmental groups, complained that NSW and Victoria are “throwing up meaningless rhetoric to delay action along the entire east coast.
It is difficult to come to a rational reason as to why Victoria does not commit to a plastic bag ban. So the solution must lie with an irrational (political) reason. With so many studies been done now, a federal senate inquiry (that interviewed dozens of experts) strongly recommending the states adopt a bag ban very soon, numerous submissions by the people of Victoria, other states having one and Vic just vacillating, it makes our politicians look incompetent. Maybe they don’t care about what the public think but are more concerned about campaign donations. That would explain their behaviour
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