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Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee - Sydney, NSW (part 2 of 2)

26 June 2026

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Environment groups outline their 2022 joint call with recycling and packaging industries for mandatory packaging regulation by 2026, describe subsequent efforts by Minister Watt, and criticise unexplained resistance within the federal environment department despite ongoing intergovernmental work towards an agreement by September.

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Environment NGOs — federal delay, compostables and state pressure

00:00

Pre‑election joint statement and federal department resistance

00:00

Political delay, community frustration and "death by process"

02:19

Compostables vs reuse and disaggregated packaging targets

08:13

State divergence on compostables and need for infrastructure

12:21

Risk of NSW unilateral action if Commonwealth stalls

14:33

Recycling peak bodies — case for mandatory national APR and robust governance

19:40

ACOR and WRIQ openings — mandatory EPR and packaging problem

19:40

Status of federal APR reform and state options (NSW, Qld)

30:20

Markets, recycled content targets and cost impacts

36:40

Infrastructure at risk, investment certainty and APCO governance

41:10

Packaging manufacturers and waste firms — sovereign capability, content mandates and infrastructure limits

56:31

PACT and Cleanaway openings — sovereign capability and RMF investments

56:31

Recycled content mandates, business cases and eco‑modulation design

01:01:58

Scheme costs, design efficiencies and emissions benefits

01:22:15

Compostables in targets and alignment with real processing capability

01:27:41

Phantom (UK EPR experience) — support for bill, phased design and cost impacts

01:36:34

Phantom (UK experience) — support for bill and phased national framework

01:36:34

Data, imports, harmonisation and modest cost impacts

01:43:13

Federal Department — current powers, scheme architecture and regulator options

02:01:42

Department of Climate Change — existing powers and design work

02:01:42

Future architecture, costs, sovereign capability and regulator options

02:15:36

Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee - Sydney, NSW (part 2 of 2)

26 June 2026

Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee Fri, 26 Jun 2026 Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:12

Speaker 55

We'd want to see leadership here domestically to make sure that we're we're meeting those those global rules if and when they're they're introduced. They might have further comments to that.

00:12 - 00:26

Speaker 43

If I just might go a bit deeper into your former question. We thought we had really good momentum under the previous federal environment minister.

00:27 - 00:28

Minister Filipicek?

00:28 - 00:46

Speaker 43

Yep. Before the federal election, we had a joint statement with ACOR and APCO and WAMRA with us calling for mandatory regulation with targets by 2026.

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