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Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The largest source was due to product packaging, responsible for about 1m tonnes of new plastic each year. Other large plastic users included the built environment (18%), electrical (9%) and clothing (8%).

True for me, duno what else you can do, chips, biscuits, cheese etc all come wrapped in plastic

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I was kinda shocked to see that TimTams still came wrapped in plastic. Even here in Germany most bigger manufacturers of biscuits have switched to alternative materials and cardboard trays

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

Until a viable alternative is introduced to replace the defunct RedCycle program - best we can do is try to try to minimise - ie. only get the biggest bags of products (or try and make your own at home), or whenever possible get the ones in hard clamshells.

But yes, it’s depressing to see just how much plastic waste we produce currently - especially knowing what we know now about microplastics - compared to the 90s and earlier.