Another COAG meeting, another limp swing at the waste problem
- Written by Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
A meeting on Friday between state and federal environment ministers to discuss Australia’s recycling and waste crisis has been disappointingly inconclusive.
Some targets were set for banning the export of various used materials: glass exports will be banned by July 2020 and mixed plastics by July 2021. New focus was put on managing other...