'Waste to energy' incineration part of the solution to recycling crisis, says minister


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“Waste to energy” incineration needs to be part of Australia’s response to its recycling crisis, says Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, who will also push the packaging industry to ramp up its use of recycled materials over the next seven years.


At a meeting of the nation’s environment ministers on Friday, Mr Frydenberg will open the door to a range of short-term and long-term efforts to help the recycling sector, which has been plunged into a state of chaos by China’s decision to restrict imports of foreign waste.


“We are seized of this issue,” Mr Frydenberg said. “We think it’s urgent and important. And we want to tackle the supply and the demand side. We want to work co-operatively with the states.”


Josh Frydenberg

Josh Frydenberg


Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Mr Frydenberg has also announced promising results out of a nationwide scheme to phase out the use of microbeads in cosmetics, with 94 per cent of relevant products now rid of the minuscule plastic particles that pollute waterways and enter the food chain.


At Friday’s gathering, Mr Frydenberg will push “environmentally sustainable” incineration as one option to help alleviate the glut of 1.3 million tonnes of recyclable waste now barred from China.


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